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Rule -> RE: Mother Teresa's dark night of the soul (8/27/2007 4:02:13 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
If I recall, there are plenty of wealthy people in the world, who manage to do a lot of good in the world with their money.
These people often only got that wealthy by selling something for more than it is worth and by other unethical dealings, transactions and behaviours. Sure their right hand may be doing a lot of good. It is the magician's distraction hand. But what evil are they doing with their left hand, the magician's hand of sleight?
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
Look at the donation Warren Buffett just made - over $30 billion dollars to the Gates foundation.
So you think that it is intended for a purpose of good? You truly believe so? It is a War-fund. Extremely wealthy people do not care about other people, nor about good. They are in the obtaining power business and they are willing to go over dead bodies to get it - many dead bodies.
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
And anyway, people's religious POV's are really beside the point. And Rule is deliberatley misunderstanding Catholic Theology, and taking any old view or quotation re: Suffering surrounding her, or what she said about its value completely out of context in order to appear oh so clever - that's total crap Rule, and you know it. Your religious hang-ups are not anyone's problem,and don't prove a thing.
What religious hang-ups?
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
The Irish Catholics and Protestants have been fighting it out for centuries. Ditto for the Palestinians and the Israelis. And so?
They do so because there is evil afoot, my dear. They are pawns that are moved by high level players, by evil people.
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
To get back to the actual topic - Mother Theresa - if I recall as well, she lived in complete poverty herself her entire life, anyway. Nobody's proven a thing, in that regard.
It is a characteristic of people with sadistic personality disorder that they may neglect themselves and not care, my dear. You think that you are presenting an argument for selflessness and therefore holiness. However, in fact your argument is extremely strong evidence that she had sadistic personality disorder.
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
data about missing money are: 1) Unproven
No, it is not. We have the testimony of a nun that nothing was ever done with the money that they received. This testimony is credible.
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
2) The work of authors whose motives could definitely be in question as well.
They are simply trying to earn a crust of dry bread, my dear. There are very few writers that can actually live from their hard labour. Have you read their books? (I haven't, but then you are the one that are criticizing them.)
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
3) That even if its true, it is still a snap-shot of a point in time. Not necessarily proof of pervasive circumstances.
You are speculating. Where is your proof of the opposite?
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
4) It doesn't prove that no good was ever done with donations to Mother Theresa
You are addicted to and obsessed with proofs. That is very narrowminded thinking. Try to step outside of the box, my dear.
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
Whether someone appreciates a person who received a past Nobel Peace Prize is beside the point. It takes substantial vetting to receive one, by people qualified enough to judge whether or not they might deserve it - at that point in time.
To me it is obvious that they are not qualified.
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
It does not, however, take any vetting whatsoever - merely a willingness to make a fast dollar at the expense of an ignorant public by making unproven allegations, to write a book claiming they are true -or to believe allegations tossed about with no real proof of their veracity.
You are mistaken. These books are read by many people that are not ignorant and that are highly critical of what they read. Thus these books are vetted by hundreds of qualified people instead of by a handful of people with suspect Reputations.
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
IMO anyone who actually objects to the idea of a Nobel Peace Prize existing in the first place has a slightly deranged POV. IMO their objection to it existing sums up just about everything wrong in the world.
I quite agree. The Nobel Peace Prize is a great idea. When awarded by good people. Not when awarded by evil people. Guess what: the evil people are in charge.
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