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7 Responses to “ Daily Breakfast 494 - Last Days ”

1. 
   Luis Escobar Jun 5th, 2008 at 7:33 am

   Sorry to be so crazy off topic here, but I just thought I’d let everyone know that I wrote up a list of different Roleplaying games systems and games on my blog for all of you to look at if you’re interested(since they were talked about in the last two shows).

   Remember, It’s not the system but the games you come up with to play with them that makes the game moral or immoral.

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   Bob P. Jun 5th, 2008 at 10:54 am

   It may not seem alike it, but most americans only give 1 percent (!!!) of their income. And also, in an old episode of RA, Greg and jennifer said one of the bast ways to tithe is 5, 4, and 1%. 5 to your parish, 4 to charities, and 1 to your diocese. Dosen’t your diocese need donations too?

   Bob Philips

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   Joe Jun 5th, 2008 at 11:43 am

   just an FYI about The Simpsons:
   http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/2008/06/the_simpsons_could_the_end_gul.html

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   Fr. Roderick Jun 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

   @Bob: in my country, the parishes pay the diocese, so individual catholics don’t have to.

5. 
   Taquoriaan Jun 6th, 2008 at 4:14 am

   Hi, I’m the protestant leaving feedback on how tithing works in my continental European protestant Church. (I’m a Calvinist). I didn’t give an example about how I bring that into practice, so will do that now.

   At my counter in the kitchen there’s a jar with a Jar Jar Binks cartoon on it, so that is my Tip Jar Jar. Here is how it works. I always have a fixed amount of money reserved for buying food in a given month. I try to spend that wisely and stay within budget. I make sure I don’t buy things that aren’t necessary. The amount of money I didn’t use goes in the Tip Jar Jar and every once and a while I empty it, count the contents and donate that to the World Food Program. Here’s why: food pricing in developing countries soar and the poorest people cannot pay for their basic food needs anymore. The United Nations’ World Food Program helps those out by distributing food. With the prices going up, they cannot distribute as much food as they want. So that’s why I give the money I didn’t spend buying food to that charity.

   I donate old clothes to charities if I buy new ones. I also try to buy as much fair trade products as I can, because it helps other people, whereas the pricing of those products is about the same as the non-fair products. Of course I donate to my Church, but also to charities if they need it, for instance for the victims of the Cyclone in Birma or the China Earthquake. I’m also sponsor of certain other charities, like “Natuurmonumenten”, UNICEF, “Stichting Lezen en Schrijven” (a Dutch charity that tries to combat analfabetism, The Red Cross, Médicins Sans Frontiers and some charities for protecting wildlife and pets. The total amount I spend to charities each month lies between 10-15% of my income. I’m on welfare, so that would be a minimum income in The Netherlands.

   Because of this I don’t own a car, a TV or other luxury items, but I just think those charities could use it better. There’s noting on the TV anyway and with a car you’re in a traffic jam anyway.

   Just my two cents.

6. 
   Michael W. Jun 6th, 2008 at 8:16 am

   Just wanted to comment on a couple of items…

   First, tithing et al… Living simply is a bit foreign to many Americans. I saw a book advertised the other day entitled “You can Never Be Rich Enough”. As you said Father, all that we have including our money comes as a gift from God, but many people including some evangelicals think that if you have lots of money, a Rolex etc. then you are more blessed than the other person.

   On a second topic, even though I agree with most of what you say about gas prices etc. driving in the US is a bit different because of the distances. I could drive all the way across Ireland in 4 hours. For me to drive from South Florida to Atlanta is 10 hours. If I wanted to take the train, I would have to drive 150 miles to Tampa or 90 miles to Sebring. Then, I’d have to go to Washington DC, change trains and catch a south bound train to Atlanta. A total of about 36 hours.

   Just about every nation subsidizes its rail system. The US in its “automobile rules” mentality ignored the trains and so we are left with a shell of what it used to be like. The only place it is working is in what they call the “Northeast Corridor” You can take a train from Washington DC to New York City and get their faster (city center to cith center) than you can by airplane thanks to high speed electric trains.

   When gas was relatively cheap Americans bought huge gas guzzlers. They didn’t care about conserving gas. Now we are paying for it… literally and figuratively!

7. 
   Christra Jun 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am

   To anybody who interest with “the last lecture” by Randy Pausch, you can watch his “original” last lecture from Itunes podcast in Carnegie Mellon university. The title of his last lecture in “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. or you can search Youtube for this video. It is an amazing video about to live the moment God give you.

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