Re:Why don't rich people do more awesome things?
by zavulon on Friday June 24, 2011 @10:58PM
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This. Intentions for good deeds should not count - those are private and for your own use only. What should matter is things that you say or do, not think.
Re:Why don't rich people do more awesome things?
by JeffffreyF on Saturday June 25, 2011 @02:02AM
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Make no mistake, you are only judged by your true intentions. People,and life, is imperfect and endlessly flawed, what was intended is really all you have in the end, all that really matters to the truth. Yes, results change circumstances and end pain, but the true measure of a man remains his thoughts. Not his wallet, or his treasures or his effect on his environment. What he is inside is what he would be with the power to do as he intended, because the truth wants only to know what he is with great power, because it is the wielding of power that determines the good, and usefulness of a man, to both individual people and to the whole truth of societies singularity.
Re:Why don't rich people do more awesome things?
by zavulon on Saturday June 25, 2011 @02:27PM
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Judged by whom? If you're talking about self-judgement, and judgement by G-d, then I fully agree. But as far as people judging other people - I think only actions and to a lesser degree words should count, because we never truly know other people's intentions.
Re:Why don't rich people do more awesome things?
by JeffffreyF on Saturday June 25, 2011 @10:52PM
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Judged by reality, by what really is, the truth. It's been called lots of things and names but it is just what is. People can't judge intentions accuratly, thus the incredible confusion over whether it matters. It's a matter of faith I suppose.
Re:Why don't rich people do more awesome things?
by demian on Friday June 24, 2011 @11:12PM
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You will if they cure AIDS in order to charge you a fortune for the cure.
Re:Why don't rich people do more awesome things?
by Unseelie on Saturday June 25, 2011 @01:30AM
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I am fairly sure that that's not a cure for AIDS.
AIDS being a contagious disease, if you don't wipe it out, you haven't cured it, it isn't a disability in one person, but a plague on the population.
God may care, you may care, and that's all very important. Seriously.
But me, I DO NOT CARE.