Curing Poverty
Usually I respect Mr. Mallet's wisdom...
But I found LINK funny...
You see, thanks to Globalization, the new Calcutta is not full of homeless beggers, but is now prosperous, so he is lamenting the poverty of spirit in the love of pleasure.
Ummm....when you are starving, you worry more about your next meal than if you did your ablations to Shiva correctly...
He is right, of course, in that prosperous people too often get hard hearted and love the pleasures of the world...so we exchange one problem for another spiritually, but I don't agree that seeking a little pleasure by itself is bad.
In Lord of the Rings, it is the peaceful, hard working but pleasure loving hobbits that are the heroes...and in the Philippines, for all the corruption, people love fiestas.
After all: when we have pleasure, it reminds us that Heaven is not a dull place where we dress in robes and hold harps, but that it's like a wedding feast.
Yum. Pass the lechon
But I found LINK funny...
You see, thanks to Globalization, the new Calcutta is not full of homeless beggers, but is now prosperous, so he is lamenting the poverty of spirit in the love of pleasure.
Ummm....when you are starving, you worry more about your next meal than if you did your ablations to Shiva correctly...
He is right, of course, in that prosperous people too often get hard hearted and love the pleasures of the world...so we exchange one problem for another spiritually, but I don't agree that seeking a little pleasure by itself is bad.
In Lord of the Rings, it is the peaceful, hard working but pleasure loving hobbits that are the heroes...and in the Philippines, for all the corruption, people love fiestas.
After all: when we have pleasure, it reminds us that Heaven is not a dull place where we dress in robes and hold harps, but that it's like a wedding feast.
Yum. Pass the lechon
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