Bill Gates Allegedly Unimpressed With Being a Billionaire
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As a frequent entry on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list, with a personal worth of roughly $59 billion, Bill Gates certainly would know something about wealth. However, he has recently commented that having as much personal capital as he does is more or less “overrated.”
And apparently, he would not mind settling for less than what he has, according to Geekwire.
“I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. But once you get much beyond that, I have to tell you, it’s the same hamburger. Dick’s [a Seattle-area fast-food chain] has not raised their prices enough,” Gates said at the University of Washington’s Computer Science & Engineering Department.
“But being ambitious is good. You just have to pick what you enjoy doing,” he added.
To be fair, Gates’ comments were prompted during the Q&A session when a student asked him how he could “be rich like him.” In an effort to remain diplomatic, most millionaire or billionaire businessmen would probably say anything but “follow your dreams” or “money isn’t everything.”
The last time a high-profile businessman proclaimed his right to profit, he was maligned and ridiculed.
And what Q&A session with a billionaire at a major university would be complete without a question about “income inequality”?
[Editors's note: these are not verbatim quotes but a shorthand summary from Geekwire to "convey what was said as accurately as possible on the fly."]
Student question: Growing disparity in wealth and income. Money concentrated in hands of just a couple people. You among them. You’re doing pretty good. (Laughter.)
But money influencing politics. Citizens United court case. Who has money influences information getting out. What should we be focusing on as a nation?
Gates: The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. Innovation means it will continue to go down. I do think in most problems time is on our side. Absolutely right there are some big fortunes and it’s not good to have a society where you don’t have mobility between different income levels.
Education ought to be good enough to move between them. Maybe self-serving, but I wouldn’t say it’s because a few people are very rich, I’d say it’s because we aren’t doing a good enough job on education.
Warren Buffett and I are two wealthiest Americans. Believe rich should give away wealth more than they do. Warren is only person to have a tax named after him. You can be very frustrated with the political system, I certainly am. I met with House members to talk about science cuts. Don’t think getting rid of wealth will solve problems. Need to fix education system, get cost of health care down, and society will feel more equitable.
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Comments (94)
mllyjul
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:23amGates states, “The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.” Why don’t you tell that to all the big mouth Democrats you support with your donatinos who rant and rave about income inequality and want to redistribute weath. I would love to drop kick some of these crybaby “poor” in the U.S. to a third world country to see what poverty realy looks like. In the U.S. you are “poor” if you dont’ have a cell phone and cable TV. I drive through the “poor” areas in my city and see satelite dishes in their yards! Give me a break!
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:30amOn almost every one of his radio shows I hear Glenn referring to ‘charity’ as being a positive thing. So I’m wondering why so many criticize the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – on so many levels? How much charity does Glenn claim on his tax returns?
Report Post »jado1981
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:59amThe world’s smartest man beat him to it, King Solomon, son of David wrote that in the book o Ecclesiastes. Everything under the sun is meaningless without the SON. He was rich beyond anyone around, yesterday, today or tomorrow, and he arrived at the same conclusion… I wish Bill could read this, and then see that he should see what else Solomon had to say.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:31pmBill Gates is an arm of the movement to socialize America and foster global government. Everything he does “for the good of people” is really for his global vision of what’s “good for the people.” It’s a political position. If more people knew about United Nations Agenda 21 (which Gates pushes) the world would be a better place because people would vote smarter and elect politicians who are for LIBERTY vs one world government.
Description of Agenda 21 & how it’s implemented in your community (all those smoking bans were part of it)
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oopudgty_FY
Ruler4You
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:34pmGates’ impression is invalid, IMHBLO. He’s filthy rich. Ask some one, like me, who’s been unemployed now since Dec 2008 if being rich would be impressive.
I can‘t get my mind off of the fact that I may be homeless in two weeks if I can’t find the money to cover my obligations. I like to work. I have considerable skill. I want to work. I want to pay my own way. I like being self sufficient. But for three years this holiday season I can think of NOTHING else. It is a haunting constant in my life. Something I never believed would happen. EVER.
But for Gates, his being not impressed with his wealth is news? Please! I’m not impressed with his wealth either.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:17amThe B&M Gates Fdn. is criticized because it gives away so much money … ABROAD!
Report Post »Everyone loves the idea of charity. Nobody questions that.
It is the fact so many in America are doing without, while they send their money to help other nations. THAT is the issue with the B&MG Fdn. Seniors have to decide between medication and food, but, instead of helping charities who assist seniors buy medication, they send their money to Africa.
Add to that the relative amount of wealth that Gates has obtained FROM the U.S., vs. the amount of wealth he has gained from Africa, and you will understand why people dislike their foundation. Are they doing anything wrong? HECK NO! It is just that they are helping people we have never seen nor know, while those in our own back yard suffer.
@leftfighter
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:28am@ VerySeniorCitizen
You missed the point. Nobody is questioning or demonizing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. *That* is a man making a ton of money on his own and voluntarily helping his fellow man. In short, Capitalism and a sane world.
We’re calling into question the fact that Bill Gates also drops so much money into a Democrat political philosophy intent on demonizing HIM until he makes the same amount that everyone else makes, so he can’t give so much money to charity.
Report Post »Robert2078
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:50pmI agree.
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:49amEducation….interesting from a college drop out.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:21amhe’s a jerk. being wealthy does not a good person make. he will not stay out of my states politics trying to get us all to pay an income tax here on top of our sales tax and trying to pass via enormous funding gay marraige ammendments. I hate seeing his giant home every time I take a trip over lake washington. he is a hypocritical unimaginitve jerk. He is importing loads of foreigners, mostly muslims, into our neighborhoods to work for him and using contracted employess so he doesn’t have to pay benefits while he spouts his liberal nonsense. His muslim employees just built North America’s largest mosque here in redmond. It gets really old. atleast steve jobs had a creative gene this man doesn’t.
Report Post »The_Midas_Curse
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:52pmIt’s his father that is pushing all that.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 1:07amhim too on the income tax. there is a clip on youtube saying we need to give more in our state. his father also most definately is not importing labor from muslim countries.
Report Post »JediKnight
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 1:36am@Brerrabit: Why sit through 4 years of college if you’ve got a great idea? Sure, he didn’t know how great it was at the time, but that’s still no reason to continue sitting through college. But yet we’re always talking about increasing spending rather than telling our students “go forth and create!”. Gates was a genius that was wasting his time in a classroom. He took a chance and it paid off. Students today need to be able to do the same. Succeed or fail based on taking a chance.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:21amCome on Gates, if by “fix education” you mean spend more on education you’re wrong. The opportunity for good education is out there in abundance. The problem is self absorbed and apathetic parents who are not involved with their child’s education. Fix that.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:49amGonzo, you hit the nail on the head…
Report Post »thefnshow
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:44ami‘m sorry but all this talk about education reform means nothing if we don’t hold teachers accountable for their part in the education problem…the solution on the left is to throw more money at the problem and that will fix the problem…it means nothing if you don’t address the other part of the equation…teachers shouldn’t be unionized,get rid of tenure, and fire the bad teachers and replace them with good teachers….if you do that then you will see education turn around..once a teacher gets tenure some,not all, teachers seem to stop caring…
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:37am@THEFNSHOW I have yet to meet a teacher who doesn‘t find it necessary to spend personal money on school supplies because the school budget doesn’t supply the necessary equipment needed for kids in any class. How can teachers – no matter how good they are – teach our kids if the classrooms are not equipped with pencils, note books, and other equipment. And NO, not all classrooms are equipped with computers – such things are waaaaaaaay down the list of necessary equipment in many poor schools. And EXACTLY how do teachers teach science without equipment, or geography without maps???
Report Post »spfoam1
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:03amOne related problem is overtaxation, making it very difficult for families to get by on one income. That means both parents are more engaged in making money than in rasing the kids.
Report Post »JediKnight
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 1:40am@Veryseniorcitizen: Our school required us (the parents) to supply our child with crayons, markers, glue sticks, etc. And what was the school budget spent on? “Modernization”. That means they installed a brand new computer connected to an interactive whiteboard. Plus there are 3 other computers in his room that were probably donated years ago. Irritated doesn’t begin to describe my feelings about the whole thing. I don’t blame the teacher though. She‘s doing what she can with what she’s being given. Priorities are completely screwed up though. “We have to teach them technology”. No, we have to teach them. Learning the technology will come, but they have to know how to learn first.
Report Post »schlepnier
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:09amIncome disparity…..
todays poor are NEW poor, people who were poor 20 years ago (like me living on minimum wage) are mostly now middle and upper income earners because capatilsm works.
Nobody starts at the top like the OWS people want (40K a year minimum wage…they really need to cut back of what they are smoking).
We got off or butts and made something happen and had the maket opportunities in place to allow it to be so. .
Report Post »Deuteronomy22
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 6:55pmYeah? Tell these people how lazy and priveledged they are.
Report Post »“Whirlpool Closing Fort Smith Plant. Move Will Cut About 1000 Jobs. ”
The CEO was paid 14 million last year and the company netted over 200 million in profit. Capitalism now only seems to work for the1% rentiers and not the 99% wrk work for them. Your comment is not validated by reality.
mlcblog
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:54amThis is what the left and the RINO’s who also like to make laws that regulate us do not understand. Those of us who work in our own businesses do it because we are born for the challenge. Yes of course the money is the thing for a while, but it is certainly not the main game. The main thing is the creativity and the challenge and the accomplishments!! plus serving our fellow man. Gates is cool.
Report Post »BrentW
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:17amGates: “I am the 0.1 %”
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:02amMoney should be seen as a giant game of poker. Eventually 1 person at the table will have it all. Why is it that only 5 people can sit down and play a game of single deck 5 card draw? Because if they each take the maximum number of cards on the draw, it comes to 45 cards gone…leaving only 7 remaining for a 6th player.
The more money that is owned, banked and out of circulation due to saving…the less there is for others to have. Even those who become wealthy now, are only earning money from the smaller pot out there still being circulated…reducung still further that which is available “among the masses.”
So unless you are going to become an isolationist country to better control the money in circulation, and tie the US population growth, amount in unspent savings, and the printing of new money all toether into a nice, neat package…you will eventually doom the masses to scrambling for what few crumbs remain or devaluing the money everyone has by uncontrolled printing with unsound parameters.
If every current millionaire on up, saves their money, what is the amount of money still in circulation and available to be earned by others?
If “rich” people start new businesses and hire people, it is more of a nigrance than a help if they are earning even 1 penny more than their employyes earn en masse. It continues to decrease the remaining amount in circulation.
Population growth is the biggest detriment to capitalism.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:12amsub “hindrance” for “nigrance” …darn typing in the datk : )
Report Post »iThOUghT
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:45amYour fatal flaw in reasoning is assuming that the U.S Economy is a zero sum game, that there is a limited amount of wealth and once it is owned, only so much remains to be distributed to others. In your world, someone must lose wealth for someone else to acquire it. Typical shallow liberal thinking, it lacks knowledge and understanding of how wealth is created. I guess that means that once all the jobs are filled, everyone else must be unemployed, or once all the food is eaten, everyone else must starve. No wonder the OWS crowd has their panties in such a twist, they are living a life based on ignorance of the nature of wealth generation.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:22am@iThOUghT
New jobs and food being created does not devalue that which came before it. Printing money to pay those it is owed to and/or earned…does.
I happen to be a rather conservative christian…and a republican.
Maybe in further responses, you might actually say something rather than just typing idiotic assumptions and childish insults which have become the mantra here at TheSmoldering, whenever someone does not hop in the sardine can with the rest of you.
Report Post »SHvnDave
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:03amTyping in the dark probably said far more than you thought.
Please explain how your system of economics fits with the fact that the current total money supply (Bills and coins plus short term bank deposits) is under $10Trillion Dollars, while the total household net worth of the US is $59 Trillion Dollars.
Explain why the net effect of the market drop in 08 removed more that $20 Trillion dollars in net worth while the money supply remained static, then in 2010, the Feds CHOOSE to increase money supply and it had small effect on increasing net worth of americans.
Gates’ $59Billion is in the economy – working hard every day. It is available to start new businesses or prop up old businesses.
And did you know that Gates, along with Buffet and Zuckerberg (Facebook founder) formally have agreed to give 50% of their total wealth to Charitible activities.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:40am@ SHvnDave
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the 59 trillion is not true tangible assets. It is the appraised value of unsold real estate, stocks, bonds etc. It can be used as collateral of course for loans and such. But it is not money in the bank or in circulation. This “wealth” is also how many banks have shown false assets, by claiming real estate owned by them is still worth pre-2008 values simply because they have not sold it for a lower value YET.
Why would a loss of 20 trillion dollars lost in “net worth” in 2008 decrease actual money in circulation? If the home I bought for 200,000 in 2000 is valued at 1 million in 2007 (which becomes 800,000 in net worth) is worth 400,000 in 2011, my new net worth 200,000 (if this is all I own)…it isn’t now (or then) money in actual circulation.
There is a huge difference between money in circulation/savings and ficticious money based upon supposed “value” if it were sold. This is nothing but a smoke & mirrors bubble that eventually bursts…like the dot.com industry and the housing market. If you are for that game of “hot potato” then you have to take the good and the bad without complaints.
But when the actual cash is in banks as collateral, personal savings, purchases of buildings, and so on…there is less and less (as the population grows) in actual circulation. Granted, the bubble can get bigger and can be sustained longer as long as their are no major “withdrawls” from it such as wars and natural disaster
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:52amBTW, I should state that I am NOT an economist. Hell, I never even went to college. That does not make me feel bad though…cause it does not seem like you can put 50 college educated economists in the same room and have even 2 agree on the same thing.
I’m trying to figure this all out just like everyone else. And since if anyone here (or elsewhere) knew what exactly worked and didn’t work, what is dumb and what is smart, what are hard and fast rules and what are theories…well, we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place…would we?
It’s just common sense that tells me that the more our population grows, the less actual wealth is available…even for the industrious person. Hence, the % of poor people grows.
You can talk all you want about the ficticious wealth existing in computers based upon appraised values of real property…but that can vanish overnight as we’ve seen.
The Chinese know this…which is why they consider us to already be in default on our loans since the payments of dollars are in dollars worth far less than what they were worth when the loans were originated.
I have no answers…other than a massive program to educate and reduce the size of our population/population growth.
Now feel free to take your shots…or provide some actual substance to teach/correct me. There are a lot of smart people on here…I certainly have no problem learning from you.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:59amBill Gates mr i would like to be reincarnated as a virus that would wipe out a bunch of the population because the numbers are unsustainable and people are destroying the planet.
Report Post »SkyeOne
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:06amAnother wealthy liberal feeling guilty.
Poor baby.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:52amThere are stupid people who are rich… there are stupid techies… and then there is Bill Gates!
Report Post »Gen.Washington
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:21amPoor education is the ultimately is the main source the worlds woes.
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:20amI’m not impressed with Bill Gates either. Windows 7 sucks…
Report Post »Tronix
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:58amIt’s amazing how people still love XP ten years later….I don’t complain much about 7, but Vista was the worst. Although, MS seems very slow right now……their products are kind of boring these days. Some could argue they were always, but not for me.
Report Post »Rollo2
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:26pmI hear ya’ Coyote1953, the work ethic is the answer, from the POTUS on down!
Report Post »theaveng
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:01amI just heard Liberal-democrat Thom Hartmann say, “Most millionaires think they should be taxed more.” So fine! Write a million-dollar check and mail it to the IRS as a donation. Jeez. It ain’t hard.
Of course the reality is that Warren Buffet owes billions in backtaxes and refuses to pay them (he hired lawyers to fight the IRS). He is a hypocrite and I suspect the other millionaires are too. “I want to pay more taxes,” while secretly owing millions or billions.
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Report Post »Warm In The Desert
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:18pmThis entire dialogue that attempts to pit the rich against the not so rich, is purely driven by the current administration, seeking to create a class warfare argument designed to distract attention away from the abysmal failure that it is.
If you are amoung those I consider the “productive rich” who created wealth via hard work, innovation, or other means, and employee people, then I applaud you and your accomplishments.
You deserve to retain your wealth, and should make no apologies.
Those with wealth stating, ‘they don’t mind being taxed more’ miss the entire issue, and should be chastised their statements. The less than wealthy, have finally rebuked this administration’s attempt to throw more quid down a rat hole. The less than wealthy turned off the spigot, so you became the next target for funding more failed policies.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:27pmChecked the “honor” role. Yep, Gates is a member of the Club of Rome.
Report Post »Rollo2
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:33pmFor most of us, personal income is our only course to personal wealth. Taxing personal income is effectively taxing every step on the road to prosperity.
http://www.fairtax.org
Report Post »if that link doesn’t work, put it into your address bar. or type “fairtax.org”into your browsers search engine.
Mimi24
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:57pm@TheTenth. I never hear about the Club of Rome on the Blaze. This should be a major concern. These people scare me more than Bilderberg. CFR and the Trilateral put together.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:03am@ Mimi24
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:57pm
@TheTenth. I never hear about the Club of Rome on the Blaze. This should be a major concern. These people scare me more than Bilderberg. CFR and the Trilateral put together.
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I’ve seen 4 or 5 others talking about it, and it really is something people should, if for no other reason than to gather research bullet points to trace, compare, contrast, and come to a conclusion about.
Tracing the Club of Rome is really easy to do, and if people do, the least reward they’ll get is the proof from their own mouth concerning global warming/climate change, and list of hundreds of the “worldwide elite” power brokers. It shows how my own Church that serves under the White Pope is adapted with the Black Pope to pull the world religions into capitulation to mysticism of Spirituality., and their grand plan to reduce the entire world population to between 250,000 – 500,000. The stella in Georgia alludes to that as well.
We should be talking about it a lot and drawing them out into the light. Soros hates the light, Buffet hates the light, and I’m sure that Gates and his African genocide program hates it.
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:14pm“The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history.” Um….what? Bill, go crack a history book. Not only was disparity between rich and poor deeper, but the poor had virtually nothing that the rich did. Today, even the poor in Africa have cellphones and TV sets.
Report Post »ThomasBombadillo
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:38pmFORMERLIB,
Go crack a thesaurus. Less inequitable = More equitable. i.e. You just echoed Mr. Gates’ point.
Report Post »Coyote1953
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:09pm“disparity in wealth” >>>> ??????
WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN?
I just paid all my bills, I have $65.00 in my checking account, $30 in my pocket, no stocks or bonds and my savings account is down to $5.00. Before Obama took office and started his campaign to fundamentlaly transform us, I had about $8,000 in savings.
Of course my life is nowhere near Bill Gates’. Bill Gates has nothing to do with the current issues in our nation.
The current issue is, how much the government controls our lives – it should be NONE. I DON’T NEED A LEADER.
He doesn’t have a $4,500 budget like I do. I don’t care how much how much he “earns” or spends.
It doesn’t matter. What matters is,
What I Can Do to help myself.
I help myself by going to work everyday and working on ways I can generate more income -
I had ambition..
Before Obama started his hate-campaign, I donated thousands of dollars to charity.
Since he began attacking me – I can’t afford to be as charitable.
The only disparity in wealth is in the minds of liberals and small-minded people.
I don’t resent “Wall Streeters”,
I ASPIRE TO EARN MORE..
I, my family and friends have nothing to do with “the 99%”
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:56amMy budget is far less than yours, and I still maintain my ambition. I won’t let a little person like Obummer ruin my parade. Come on!! man up and quit complaining. Take charge. We need everyone, yes this means you!!
Report Post »Rollo2
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:54pmHey, Bill! AFLAC Children s Cancer Research Hospital could use a trust account, give them a whirl!!
Report Post »They are one of my fav charities, and you cannot give there without feeling that you receive a bounty of love in return.
Falsegods
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:33pmResearch Bill and Malinda fundiing cancer inducing vaccines to children !
Report Post »Verity58
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:53pmBill Gates > MIT >CIA>NWO=evil
Report Post »Falsegods
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:45pmWe know who you are and we know what you did .
Report Post »Rollo2
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:04pmWhat he did was buy out an old IBM diagnostics program and turned it into Windows, without which most of the people on this board would never have figured out how to get a computer online.
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:39pmI like how they make themselves out to be such martyrs.. Grab a tent Bill, they’re fairly cheap at the sporting goods store. Buy some MREs while you’re at it and tow the line with the rest of the OWS morons.
Report Post »DeVain
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:38pmAwesome.
I’d be impressed if he gave it to me!!!
I’m not greedy. Give me a mere 100 million and I will guarantee I give 99% to charity.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:56pmNot to start a bidding war, but I’ll give away 99.5%.
Report Post »In the same way “youth is wasted on the young”, billionaire status is wasted on the Gates and Buffets.
I make half the money I made 25 years ago; factor in the deluation of the dollar and it’s more like 25% in real terms.
I really feel for gates.
Yeah.
RightPolitically
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:38pmGates sounds almost conservative. Good for him.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:30pmGates conservative? Hardly. Mr. Eugenics is more like it. He and Buffett have some incredibly evil intentions.
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:37pmIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
Report Post »Rollo2
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:57pmBut it’s not impossible for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, if that passage is in Gods’ will.
Report Post »Coyote1953
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:48pmThe “Eye of the Needle” was a gate in ancient Jerusalem.
It’s a good parable – it means: you can’t take it with you.
The parable has nothing to do with how much a person earns, the issue refers to hording riches while not helping people who chose not to succeed in life . (I give about $3000 a year to help others – more than most Democrat legislators – NOT BECAUSE I HAVE TO, BUT BECAUSE I WANT TO.
Parables in the Bible aren’t literal. God didn’t create man in 7 days.
In the Godly realm, 7 days could have been millennium.
Why doesn’t the Bible refer to ancient bones of dinosaurs?
We know dinosaurs existed – BEFORE MAN.
The King James version was commissioned to reflect “King James” version of “Christianity”.
Versions after that were as much diluted.
He didn’t create “man” out of his PHYSICAL IMAGE.
Jesus was a conservative !
In most translations of the Bible, Jesus said:
“Gave a fish and the he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”
That is the difference that divides Republicans and Democrats.
Republicans believe in teaching a man to fish. To be self-sufficient.
Democrats believe in giving a fish to the man each day but they he will be reliant on others tomorrow.
God is in all of us.
We don’t need anyone to tell us right from wrong.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:59pmCoyote1953. You are a liar.
Report Post »JediKnight
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 1:46am@Coyote1953: The passage refers to how much of a pain in the ass it was to get through that doorway after the main gate had been locked. The rider had to completely unload his camel in order to get through since it was only large enough for the camel to crawl through. Hence “it is easier for a camel to pass through the Eye of a Needle then it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”. So the more you had, the more you had to unload. It has nothing to do with not helping people who chose not to succeed. There’s even a parable about the man with 3 sons. One of which buries the money the father gives him and then is kicked out, while the son that invested it and brought back even more is rewarded. What does that say about someone that chooses not to succeed?
Report Post »Dan308
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:37pmtry making 30k a year then tell me how unimpressed you are.
Report Post »randy
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:34pmOh Please!
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