{"id":201768,"date":"2020-02-01T06:54:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201768"},"modified":"2020-02-04T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T08:21:15","slug":"are-we-like-this-blind-beggar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201768","title":{"rendered":"Are We Like this Blind Beggar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

henrymakow.com — Jan 31, 2020<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>I often see this blind Mexican beggar and usually give him a few pesos.<\/h5>\n
He is there every day.<\/h5>\n
“Didn’t I give you money yesterday?”<\/em> I think.<\/h5>\n
Yes but he needs to eat everyday.<\/em><\/h5>\n
Jesus:\u00a0\u00a0“If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Matthew 9:21<\/h5>\n

By Henry Makow PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Why am I so stingy? <\/strong>Compared to this blind beggar, I have so much money. But I don’t want a dependent.<\/h5>\n
There is no disability pension in Mexico so he has thrown himself on the Mercy of his fellow man.<\/h5>\n
This is a quaint tourist town – bustling on weekends and holidays but pretty sleepy otherwise.<\/h5>\n
My restauranteur compassion syndrome<\/span> <\/a>\u00a0has kicked in. So many restaurants. So few customers. I feel the owner’s anxiety.<\/h5>\n
When people have no education or skills, all they can do is open a restaurant, often a hole in the wall, or a stall selling the same tired\u00a0souvenirs\u00a0or candy as hundreds of others.<\/h5>\n
Then there is the shoe shine man, assorted buskers and food carts, a boy selling melons from a wheel barrow, and withered old women with outstretched hands.<\/h5>\n
Everyone needs a feed. Even Wall Street bankers.<\/h5>\n
Whether stray dog, pigeon, banker or beggar, their day is dedicated to putting food in their mouth.<\/h5>\n
Stray dogs bask in the sun. A lot of people live hand-to-mouth.<\/h5>\n
People with money have no perspective. We live hand-5000-miles-to-mouth. Yet we check our nest egg, our 401-Ks constantly. Poverty is a state-of-mind and most people feel poor.<\/h5>\n
Our minds have been conditioned to covet money — a spider’s web thrown over our souls. Money (and sex) ensure that we behave as automatons.<\/h5>\n
Mathew 6:26:\u00a0Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one [a]cubit to his stature?<\/em><\/h5>\n

BLIND BEGGAR<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blinded by the materialism that dominates our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201772,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201768\/revisions\/201772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}