Can christians just give 10% of their incomes to starving diseased families in africa?
... instead of their already fat pastors? Can you imagine the CHRISTIAN kind of differences you could make in the lives of the suffering people in africa, south america, asia, even in our own back yards if we just sent money to the appropriate charities... instead of church building and expansion projects, or so that our pastors can buy new cars... it saddens me to see mega churches with 1,000,000,000 members (intentionally exaggerated, please don't dwell on it) and their buildings the size of a football stadium when there are people around the globe who don't have water. why do we need mulitmillionaire pastors? why do our churches have to be huge and ornate? and that would be most churches, not just the mega church. vaulted ceilings, stained glass... to me that is the ugliest side of christian hypocrisy.
Religion & Spirituality - 6 Answers
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Doing so would prevent evolution. To keep alive those that cannot keep themselves alive would be holding the human race back.
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first of all...i dont know what church you go to but my pastor's not FAT! Also, not all of the money goes to the pastor's wallet. . .in fact, none of it does. A lot of churches segregate the money to missions (local and international), the homeless, and the red cross. Youre STUPID
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sound good,only if we know for sure that the suffering would get full benefit and the 10% would not go into someone else pockets.
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Paying tithes (the 10%) is meant to be for the ongoing expansion of God's work. The church needs a building, lights, staff, etc. Charity is also a part of the church's giving. If men, humans, people, pastors, etc. do wrong with God's money or assets, He is quite capable of taking care of the situation, and doesn't need any help.
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And who do you think is helping out all these other countries and feeding the poor in this country it sure isn't the Hindus Buddhist are Muslims ,and I have not seen one Gay organization yet show how they are helping orphans that they claim they want to adopt , How about the porn industry giving just 1% of there gross income , What makes you think a Pastor is suppose to drive a jullopy
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The problem is that over half of the money goes to the people that claim to be helping starving children; maybe even 90% of the money does not go to where you want it to go.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
I have 1 year to save up money, what should I do?
I have 1 year to save up money, what should I do?
Ok so I'm saving up cash for a DSLR camera (I love photography). At the Moment I only have R2500 (that's Rand and it is South Africa's currency). The camera I'm looking to buy over a year (Canon 450D or Nikon D60) is going to cost about R10000. I earn R2400 a year (pocket money). So then I am going to have R4900. That's not even close, but my mother said she will also give a substantial amount. So anyway, I'm gonna be R2000 - R3000 short. How can I make that money in One year? I am altready saving all the money I get. And I am only a kid and am still attending school, so I don't think getting a job will work. What I actually mean is which side jobs can I do?
Financial Aid - 14 Answers
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start saving :)
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get a job
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hmmmmm,,, i dont know mate how about start saving!!!
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Do side jobs
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get a good paying job
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Get a job
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Get another job.
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pay attentino to waht you spend and save save save!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In other words, you have to make double the amount of money you expect to make over the next year. You need a second job, or you need to double your hours, and/or sell some things you already own.
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stop spending it all on those transvestite whores
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You can get an online with AQA (Any Question Answered), and you get paid for each answer you answer. I do it whilst i'm at uni. http://www.aqa.63336.com/vacancies.htm
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I think that it is a good ideal to save up money. what every is the lose camera their is.
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its very simple, spend ur oney only where it need to be spend..dont waste money.. apply this for one year..result will be in front of u..
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Could you get a Saturday job? My brother is still in school and he lifeguards at the weekends. Alternatively could you get a shop or cafe job? Otherwise, you have to try family and your parents' friends. Wash cars, walk dogs, babysit if you are old enough, polish shoes, run errands, do yard work... basically do whatever they don't have time to do/don't want to do themselves. You could write a letter to these people explaining your situation and that you are prepared to do any odd jobs for them in exchange for a camera fund donation. Ask for money towards your camera for gifts for your birthday and Christmas. Don't do any of the jobs offered online where they just promise you money but don't explain what you have to do - they are fake and will cost you. Good luck - it is great to hear for someone who is prepared to work hard to achieve their goals.
Ok so I'm saving up cash for a DSLR camera (I love photography). At the Moment I only have R2500 (that's Rand and it is South Africa's currency). The camera I'm looking to buy over a year (Canon 450D or Nikon D60) is going to cost about R10000. I earn R2400 a year (pocket money). So then I am going to have R4900. That's not even close, but my mother said she will also give a substantial amount. So anyway, I'm gonna be R2000 - R3000 short. How can I make that money in One year? I am altready saving all the money I get. And I am only a kid and am still attending school, so I don't think getting a job will work. What I actually mean is which side jobs can I do?
Financial Aid - 14 Answers
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start saving :)
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get a job
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hmmmmm,,, i dont know mate how about start saving!!!
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Do side jobs
5 :
get a good paying job
6 :
Get a job
7 :
Get another job.
8 :
pay attentino to waht you spend and save save save!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9 :
In other words, you have to make double the amount of money you expect to make over the next year. You need a second job, or you need to double your hours, and/or sell some things you already own.
10 :
stop spending it all on those transvestite whores
11 :
You can get an online with AQA (Any Question Answered), and you get paid for each answer you answer. I do it whilst i'm at uni. http://www.aqa.63336.com/vacancies.htm
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I think that it is a good ideal to save up money. what every is the lose camera their is.
13 :
its very simple, spend ur oney only where it need to be spend..dont waste money.. apply this for one year..result will be in front of u..
14 :
Could you get a Saturday job? My brother is still in school and he lifeguards at the weekends. Alternatively could you get a shop or cafe job? Otherwise, you have to try family and your parents' friends. Wash cars, walk dogs, babysit if you are old enough, polish shoes, run errands, do yard work... basically do whatever they don't have time to do/don't want to do themselves. You could write a letter to these people explaining your situation and that you are prepared to do any odd jobs for them in exchange for a camera fund donation. Ask for money towards your camera for gifts for your birthday and Christmas. Don't do any of the jobs offered online where they just promise you money but don't explain what you have to do - they are fake and will cost you. Good luck - it is great to hear for someone who is prepared to work hard to achieve their goals.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Would it be better for my son if I make him stay or let him go?
Would it be better for my son if I make him stay or let him go?
After I and my ex-husband divorced, my ex-husband took my son, Andre who was 12 at the time with him without my permission. My husband took Andre with him to South Africa. I didn’t hear from him until he was fourteen. When I heard from him again, he says he was ok and he’ll be in touch with me again soon. I later learned he have provided fake info and claimed he was sixteen to get in the military. I didn’t hear from him again for about a year. Next thing I know is, he deserted South Africa army and is living in Belgrade, Serbia. He didn’t really stay in touch for a while until a couple months ago, he finally start to stay in touch. We have been talking couple time a week for a while. Andre have always liked photography and been doing it since he was a boy. He say when his father took him to Africa, he learned how to sell stock photography and saved up money until he moved out of South Africa. He has been working as an assistant for one of the most respected high fashion photographer in Serbia. He say he have a girlfriend who is 20 and living with him. Andre also say he’s consider about go into paramilitary if he can continue do photography while being in paramilitary. We have been in touch and even talked about having him coming here so we can see each other again. Since he’s still a child, he’s only sixteen and I don’t know if he has any education beyond middle school. I really want him to stay home so he can go back to school and be a child again, be with his sister and brother, and rest of the family, and so I can finish raising him. Also idea of him has already been in military and thinking about getting back into military at such young age is just scary to me. But my finance says that it will never work and would be a bad idea to try to make him stay here. So I should let him go back after visiting unless he wants to stay. I really don’t know what to do about this. I hope somebody can help out.
Psychology - 6 Answers
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I think u should respect his ideas on what he wants to do.
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Generally, I advocate letting your child go his own way. But if it is illegal to work in the military--it should be, at his age--you should keep him from doing so. But that does not mean you can keep him with you against his will. I'm very sorry about what you have gone through. This must be difficult for you.
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Having your kid turn out to be something other than what your original thoughts/plans were for them is sometimes too heartbreaking to handle. Since your son is already de-cultured from our ways, I would say that he can't come home again, and be a normal son. We all write our lives/charts before we come here to live out our lives, and his life has been prewritten to do exactly what he is doing. For some reason, my daughter chooses to go with any and all losers that cross her path, and I too, have a broken heart. But there is nothing I can do about it, except to let her learn on her own, because that's the way this is all playing out. I told my ex tonight that I wish I had never even had her, that I should have never even considered being a mother, because it is just too heartbreaking, to sit back and helplessly watch what we think is detrimental to our baby/our child. Everything happens for a reason, and just be thankful that he stays in touch with you. The jerk my daughter so "loves" talked her into not calling me for 3 months, because of his views and his control over her. I'll say it again. I wish I had never even had her. All we can do now is let the cards fall where they may.
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He is a man. If he has been in the military he will go when he pleases. You lost control of him when he went with his father.
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no one can make this decision for you but it sounds like he has his own life now. he has a girlfriend, job wants to be in the military which is an honorable thing. you really should just tell him how you feel and see what he says, he may want to go back home but not sure that he is welcome or even if he don't want to go home, he probably still wants the invite. just find out what he wants and support him on whatever that may be. Summer
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this is what is call a cultural conflict. cultural he has being raised as a South African and their culture may view childhood and manhood differently then what American culture might, (are you by the American by the way?) anyway, 16 over there might consider an adult . Now u might be asking what does that have to do with anything? well the problem is if he think himself as a man, he might end up hating u if u try to kept him here and he might try to run away. Plus u may never see him again. Set down with him and treat him as an adult talk to him about him moving back. and that there will always be a place to stay/ live. If he states no then let him go! I know what i am stating is hard for a mother to hear, but he is an adult at 16!
After I and my ex-husband divorced, my ex-husband took my son, Andre who was 12 at the time with him without my permission. My husband took Andre with him to South Africa. I didn’t hear from him until he was fourteen. When I heard from him again, he says he was ok and he’ll be in touch with me again soon. I later learned he have provided fake info and claimed he was sixteen to get in the military. I didn’t hear from him again for about a year. Next thing I know is, he deserted South Africa army and is living in Belgrade, Serbia. He didn’t really stay in touch for a while until a couple months ago, he finally start to stay in touch. We have been talking couple time a week for a while. Andre have always liked photography and been doing it since he was a boy. He say when his father took him to Africa, he learned how to sell stock photography and saved up money until he moved out of South Africa. He has been working as an assistant for one of the most respected high fashion photographer in Serbia. He say he have a girlfriend who is 20 and living with him. Andre also say he’s consider about go into paramilitary if he can continue do photography while being in paramilitary. We have been in touch and even talked about having him coming here so we can see each other again. Since he’s still a child, he’s only sixteen and I don’t know if he has any education beyond middle school. I really want him to stay home so he can go back to school and be a child again, be with his sister and brother, and rest of the family, and so I can finish raising him. Also idea of him has already been in military and thinking about getting back into military at such young age is just scary to me. But my finance says that it will never work and would be a bad idea to try to make him stay here. So I should let him go back after visiting unless he wants to stay. I really don’t know what to do about this. I hope somebody can help out.
Psychology - 6 Answers
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I think u should respect his ideas on what he wants to do.
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Generally, I advocate letting your child go his own way. But if it is illegal to work in the military--it should be, at his age--you should keep him from doing so. But that does not mean you can keep him with you against his will. I'm very sorry about what you have gone through. This must be difficult for you.
3 :
Having your kid turn out to be something other than what your original thoughts/plans were for them is sometimes too heartbreaking to handle. Since your son is already de-cultured from our ways, I would say that he can't come home again, and be a normal son. We all write our lives/charts before we come here to live out our lives, and his life has been prewritten to do exactly what he is doing. For some reason, my daughter chooses to go with any and all losers that cross her path, and I too, have a broken heart. But there is nothing I can do about it, except to let her learn on her own, because that's the way this is all playing out. I told my ex tonight that I wish I had never even had her, that I should have never even considered being a mother, because it is just too heartbreaking, to sit back and helplessly watch what we think is detrimental to our baby/our child. Everything happens for a reason, and just be thankful that he stays in touch with you. The jerk my daughter so "loves" talked her into not calling me for 3 months, because of his views and his control over her. I'll say it again. I wish I had never even had her. All we can do now is let the cards fall where they may.
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He is a man. If he has been in the military he will go when he pleases. You lost control of him when he went with his father.
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no one can make this decision for you but it sounds like he has his own life now. he has a girlfriend, job wants to be in the military which is an honorable thing. you really should just tell him how you feel and see what he says, he may want to go back home but not sure that he is welcome or even if he don't want to go home, he probably still wants the invite. just find out what he wants and support him on whatever that may be. Summer
6 :
this is what is call a cultural conflict. cultural he has being raised as a South African and their culture may view childhood and manhood differently then what American culture might, (are you by the American by the way?) anyway, 16 over there might consider an adult . Now u might be asking what does that have to do with anything? well the problem is if he think himself as a man, he might end up hating u if u try to kept him here and he might try to run away. Plus u may never see him again. Set down with him and treat him as an adult talk to him about him moving back. and that there will always be a place to stay/ live. If he states no then let him go! I know what i am stating is hard for a mother to hear, but he is an adult at 16!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
I have two young football players,how do I market them to get a good club.?
I have two young football players,how do I market them to get a good club.?
They are both 17 yrs with talent,we are all in Africa.we used a FIFA agent but was demanding a lot of money from clubs which I feel is unfair instead of getting them a good deal(playing in a good league)He wants to make money off them.so far we have contacts in South Africa but the league is not that good. Our plan is to break in the real world of soccer,show the talent then money later.Anyone with an idea where to start from?
Other - Football - 1 Answers
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Put Together a Highlight tape. With the right program it's really easy. I've used Visual Communicator 2 in the past, it should work for you.
They are both 17 yrs with talent,we are all in Africa.we used a FIFA agent but was demanding a lot of money from clubs which I feel is unfair instead of getting them a good deal(playing in a good league)He wants to make money off them.so far we have contacts in South Africa but the league is not that good. Our plan is to break in the real world of soccer,show the talent then money later.Anyone with an idea where to start from?
Other - Football - 1 Answers
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Put Together a Highlight tape. With the right program it's really easy. I've used Visual Communicator 2 in the past, it should work for you.
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