Look, HP isn't the first to advocate living a debt-free (and mortgage-free) life. I think that kind of advice has been around for thousands of years.
Ever wonder why bankruptcy lasts seven years? Look to Deuteronomy 15. Every wonder why people accuse the Jewish people of being the bankers or the lenders (versus stupid debt-ridden interest-paying fools)? Interesting. And no matter what happens here - do not feed honica-troll!!!
What I find especially funny are debt-ridden born-agains. Guess they just pick and choose which parts of the Bible they like eh?...
Romans 13:8: "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
Proverbs 22:7: “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”
Psalm 37:21: “The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously.”
Deuteronomy 15:1-2: “At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel the loan he has made to his fellow Israelite. He shall not require payment from his fellow Israelite or brother, because the LORD’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed.”
Deuteronomy 28:1: “You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.” Borrowing is never God’s best for His people.
December 10, 2006
Anyone think Jesus would've taken out an interest-only, negative-am, no-down, no-doc liars loan on that speculative Jerusalem condo?
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Jesus was a carpenter, he would have built his own house with his earnings. No chance in hell he'd have been a realtor or lender!
"Hi, I'm Jesus, your REALTORtm. I'd like to show you something a bit above your price range next, but we can maybe get you into an interest-only so you can make the payments"
"This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel the loan he has made to his fellow Israelite. He shall not require payment from his fellow Israelite or brother"
“You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.”
Sense a pattern here?
Removing "In God We Trust" from our currency sounds like a good idea considering how we are owned by so many others
In China We Trust.????????/
Live modestly, reasonably. Give to others, charities, don't build up treasures here....you ain't takin' em with!
Keith, This is one of your better post, a great message for all.
I hope Casey Serin stop by.
Make that stops by...
:Engineer will be a quaint term like Blacksmith
At Oracle Corp, most North American hires are in sales and consulting nowadays. Ellison was the only honest CEO, in the sense that he'd admitted that tech (IT in particular) was consolidating and that it wouldn't be creating new work, stateside, in the future four years ago. That's prescience.
I believe that mortgages are not instruments of evil. But there have to be some limits. Even IO mortgages and option arms have their place, for certain people. The problem is that the use of these exotic financial instruments has proliferated to the unsophisticated, who have abused them.
Yes, there is a moral element here. Our culture has lost its moral compass. For these toxic mortgages to become so popular there had to have been widespread fraud and dishonesty.
If mindless consumerism, materialism, jealousy and conceit weren't now so embedded in our communal ethos perhaps this would not have happened. But perhaps a disaster like this housing meltdown will remind us what is truly important. Because many of us will have nothing else.
Bankruptcy now lasts 10 years, since the new law that passed last year.
u forgot 'pay option'
the reic is the modern day romans
and they want to nail buyers to the cross
The Son of man does not even have a place to lay his head.
Amen, Keith. Well said.
Jesus wasn't concerned with this world and wouldn't have purchased a home, let alone rent one, he was a wandering preacher living off the alms of others.
Citing Jewish law gives no insight into the modern world unless you want to start stoning those who kindle a fire on the sabbath day. Even Islam works around the issues of interest.
Also have you seen the prices for a nice middle class joint in Israel or Lebanon or even Bagdad? Given the security differences those places in Phoenix look...under priced.
Jesus would have been a hedge fund trader since he had the ability to see trends, both short and long term.
That way, he'd have all the funds needed to start a worldwide religion than just a bunch of carpenter union fireside chats to one group of workers.
I've never seen a Brink's truck in a funeral procession, have you?
Parable of Jesus and the Realtor:
"Oh never mind that little cross hill over there, they only have executions every three months or so, perfect time for you to take your friends and that cutie mary magdalene to temple services, or wherever it is you go to minister, nudge nudge wink wink!"
"Of course I know you're the Son of God but six percent is sheckels well spent to know you're in the good hands of a Realtor(TM)!"
"Oh don't pay attention to those long-bearded doom-sayer prophets whinging about the Roman occupation and confiscations, today is a definitely a good time to buy! Don't you trust the President of the Judean Association of Realtors? Dr. David L'Rah himself made his yearly Rosh Hashana forecast a couple of days ago! Prices always go up after Yom Kippur anyway."
Folks, I gotta newsflash fer ya, Isrealites are not the same thing as Christ-murdering jews.
Cut the does honica!
We all know how you feel!
....or is it dose!
My Bad?
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