This economic meltdown is no accident folks

[z.monkey]

Howdy ResinRat2,

This is prophesy coming to pass.  Those of us who have nothing have nothing to loose.  But those with the artificially  inflated wealth stand to loose everything.  If congress doesn't pass the bailout their house of cards has folded.  They have lost everything that they thought they had, but didn't really.  An artificially inflated portfolio is just that, artificially inflated.  It must suck to be someone who has nothing but financial skills right now.

For it shall come to pass that those who consider themselves to be bold and wealthy shall come to be destroyed.  And those who are humble and follow the word of GOD shall find that they have inherited the Kingdom of GOD, for they are the meek and they shall inherit the Earth.

Jesus said...

â€Ã...“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.â€Ã,

â€Ã...“If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.â€Ã,

Blessed Be...

[exxcomm0n]

@ resin & monkey

God???

How does God figure into this??

Religion was the _1st_ politics that used fear of the God to enforce certain actions or keep you exercising from others, and I don't see how God can have anything to do with this "crisis", or its remedy.

The best religious saying I can think of right now is, "God helps them who help themselves".

WE did this through action or inaction, and God is not going to save us.

Now, if we start taking the major teachings of religion to heart and start thinking what consequences some actions might have (after 1min, 1 hr, 1day, 1 yr. 1 decade, etc.) in regard to our fellow man, THEN God will have a hand in our salvation or damnation.

Don't expect a rescue from God, but instead think of how living with the thought of how your actions will effect your fellow man can help you to walk "closer with God" and keep a situation like this from happening again.

EDIT:

Sorry gents.

I read it after I posted and I sound as if I'm attacking you.

What I mean is that by invoking "God", you immediately lead most people to thinking about religion, and the 2 seem mutually exclusive through what they say their about (God), and what they do (orginized religion).
Evidence there is a plenty.

You, or I ARE God when we ascribe to the teachings of God through our actions, and that is the only way I see God as having anything to do with our salvation.

I think all of us have a little bit of God in us, but it's up to us to allow that part of ourselves to effect our lives by how it counsels us to live.

May God bless you, and keep you, and make his face shine upon you.



@ all

As with all sensational events that have happened within the last 30 years, this event seems like so many others in the way that there is 1st a smaller incident, then a larger one, and then a larger one, ad infinitum.

It's like any good con. You feed the mark an ever growing situations of improbability until they will easily swallow the most outlandish circumstance with aplomb, and it seems that this is the situation that has been seen effecting many recent events.

Start supporting Kucinich's impeachment proceedings, or any other instance of the american people holding their elected officials or corporate officials to account for their actions and I bet it's a long time before another event like this occurs.

God should help YOU to do something! Not bail your ass out after you've been using it (your ass) as your thinking appliance.

This will keep happening as long as Corp. officers and politicians do not have to face any consequences of their actions.

[ResinRat2]

@ resin & monkey
God???
How does God figure into this??

To you, apparently not at all. To me, God figures into everything. Even when a single leaf falls from a tree.

All things that happen, occur because God "allows" them to happen, even evil happens because God "allows" it to happen; but out of that evil will come a greater good.

A simple analogy will explain to you my belief.

If there was a small child next to you on the sidewalk, with no parent in sight, and that child started to wander into the street where a car was approaching, you would have the power to stop that child from being injured or killed. In fact, if you were to allow that child to wander into the path of a car and that child was struck, through your inaction you allowed that to happen, you willfully allowed that to happen. Though you did nothing, you were responsible, in a way, for that action to occur.

In my view God is all powerful and can stop any act that occurs in this universe. If something happens, God has willfully allowed it to happen for a greater good. Whether we understand why or not, that is the reason for everything that happens here in this universe.

Whether you think I am right or wrong doesn't matter to me. Your opinion doesn't change my belief at all.

[z.monkey]

Howdy Exxcomm0n,

Uh, yeah, GOD works through men.  GOD can even work through evil men.  Of course we have to do it ourselves.  But with GODs help we will be more effective.  And were not talking about some sort of religious tomfoolery, I am talking about real spiritual power, through man of course.  Maybe some space aliens could help too...

Blessed Be...

[exxcomm0n]

@ resin

Please see edit in original post.

Otherwise, we do seem to be on the same page.

"God" help us all in the coming times, as I don't think they'll be pretty.