Blog Connection — Materialism
This will most likely be a weekly part of this blog where I, oddly enough, ask you to go elsewhere to read other’s opinions about differing subjects. If a good post is made somewhere, I definitely want to recognize it.
So much more than a bowl of candy
All of these deal with materialism, something that’s been on my mind lately. Why give my views on it though, when I can give you three? Feel free to read these articles, you can post comments here or on the author’s site. Also feel free to post your own articles on this subject or your ways of rejecting materialism in exchange for faith in God. It’s something that everyone wants to talk about, but few act upon it.
Isn’t it interesting how God puts similar things on our hearts? I also have been struggling with materialism, in particular feelings of envy. This weekend I was really convicted of those thoughts and was struck by the realization that it was more than just “thoughts”, it was a pattern of sinful behavior. I’ve blogged about it here if you’re interested (http://educatedguesser.blogspot.com)
Thank you for your transparency and honesty. So many of us try to put up a false front as Christians and deceive ourselves into being more self-reliant than we truly are. We need God at every moment. May He bless you greatly as you cling to him for your daily needs.
I think it is ironic that Christianity is supposed to be a life of chosen poverty. Well, I think I should be a shinging example of that, although my ‘Christian’ relatives like to doubt my faith for me, because I use the word ‘fuck’ in my novels, and, I suppose, I don’t make fun of other people to make myself feel superior, like these relatives do. But what gets me the most is how the Republican Party and televangelists tell us it’s a sin to vote for Democrats, when the Republican Party is more concerned about what they have, than who they are, even when they are pissing and moaning about ‘character in the White House. They seem to measure themselves by their possessions.
Then there’s the televangelists, like Pat Robertson basically telling his followers in 2004 that it would be a sin to vote for John Kerry, when Robertson courts a dictator in the Congo, so he can mine gold out of the gold mines there.
The Republicans and Christians remind me of a stanza from a Bob Dylan song called “It’s Allright, Ma, I’m Only Bleeding”:
“Old ladies judges watch people in pairs.
Limited in sex they dare,
to push fake morals; insult and stare.
While money doesn’t talk; it swears.
Obscenity, who really cares?
PROPOGANDA ALL IS PHONY.
Body am I, and soul—so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
But the awakened one, the knowing one, saith: Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only the name of something in the body.
Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage—it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body.
There is more sagacity in thy body than in thy best wisdom. And who then knoweth why thy body requireth just thy best wisdom?
The Self saith unto the ego: “Feel pain!” And thereupon it suffereth, and thinketh how it may put an end thereto—and for that very purpose it IS MEANT to think.
The Self saith unto the ego: “Feel pleasure!” Thereupon it rejoiceth, and thinketh how it may ofttimes rejoice—and for that very purpose it IS MEANT to think.
that is the truth brothers
oh yea, peace and love too