greed; a selfish and excessive desire for more of something
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Completely Fed Up with Selfish People
When we came to this small town, we did so with high hopes and passion to be a part of a community that was small enough to wrap our arms around.
It didn't dawn on me that the life lessons that I was in store for would come in like tidal waves. First puncturing my heart with emotions that I guess I wasn't prepared for.
Good, bad or indifferent, the extreme series of events and emotional roller coaster that I have endured since moving here is now becoming easier to manage.
In my heart...I truly believe that people mean well, or so I thought they did. Maybe, the answer is is that most people don't think to the end. They just open their mouths and mean things spill out.
Considering myself to be an unusual being, things of a monetary nature don't mean much to me. Yes..have to have money to live...but it doesn't make me who I am. I very seldom ask people for anything. It keeps me safe from more heartbreak and disappointment, as they usually say no. So why ask? I can really do it myself.
You will never hear me challenge people that are challenging me in regards to money. It's just not worth it.
I've decided that these selfish situations will be let go of, the minute they arrive. My venting is written on this page and I will leave it at that.
Politically correct or not...put a fork in it.
Gandhi's Seven Deadly (and I mean deadly) Sins...
- Wealth without Work
- Pleasure without Conscience
- Science without Humanity
- Knowledge without Character
- Politics without Principle
- Commerce without Morality
- Worship without Sacrifice
Just because we live in possibly the most pampered, consumerist society since the Roman Empire...it fell. Remember?
Eyes Wide Open
Give it a rest.
I've decided that living in a small town society that...If we're being run out of town, we're going to get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. Yipppeee!
Pleasure without Conscience
Get a grip people.
Quit being so ignorant.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. ~Richard Whately
Quit being so selfish
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.-
Thank you. I'm so grateful you're here.
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I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. - Albert Einstein Have gratitude and kindness taken a back seat to other emotions. I'm not judging. It's an observation. We struggle with jealousy and greed, I know we don't mean t...
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I Want To Feel Good
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The last 7 years are somewhat of a blur. When I created this lens I was going through major changes in my life. It was sort of like being thrown out of a plane without a parachute. After you hit the ground, you have to climb out of the hole that you&...
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ~Mohammed Ali
Have you forgotten?
So you think you're immortal. That must be why you think you have the right to lie, cheat and steal. Shameful.
Spiritually Perilous
Doesn't matter which...there are still Seven very Deadly Sins
Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.
Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.
Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.
Anger/Wrath is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury.
Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual.
Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.
Karma's a Bitch
and then you die.
We are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual experience...we are spiritual beings going through a temporary human experience.
In criminal law, theft is the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's freely-given consent. The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting, fraud and sometimes criminal conversion. In some jurisdictions, theft is considered to be synonymous with larceny; in others, theft has replaced larceny.
Someone who carries out an act of or makes a career of theft is known as a thief, and the act of theft is known as stealing, thieving, or sometimes filching.
I'm Living In My Own World and...
they like me here.
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Greedy Little Piggy
How dare you.
- Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that greed was "a sin against God, ..... In order to fit the sins into a six part series Greed and Gluttony were combined as the ...
- Greed
- We exist in a kind of void, in which individualism flourishes, and narcissism, ego, materialism, the pursuit of self, wealth, status and greed - but nothing ...
- American Greed - CNBC.com
- Some people will do anything for money. CNBC's "American Greed" an unprecedented original primetime series, examines the dark side of the American Dream.
- The Sin of Covetousness
- Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas said of Covetousness: "it is a sin directly against one's neighbor, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, ...
Are you in dangerous karmic peril?
You might want to take stock.
Worth repeating...
Just because we live in possibly the most pampered, consumerist society since the Roman Empire...it fell. Remember?
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- blue22d blue22d Jul 6, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
- I am with you on this topic. We Americans spend too much, waste too much, are too much of a "me" generation, and have a run-a-way government. We are seeing the falling of a great country because of greed. We all need to do our part and write our government representatives to let them know we love our country and we do not want to see it fail. We must have a controlled budget and we must control spending.
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