TAG: poverty

In the Presence of Suffering

Charlie Veitch The Love Police  Suffering creates empathy and tolerance. It is mostly through suffering that we experience the fissures and limits of knowledge, of coping. Through the pain of loss or grief we see that every single human being on the planet is capable of despair, and in this mutual despair, we understand concepts

Is Junk Food For The Poor Better Than Nothing?

Tania Melkonian Waking Times Anyone behind me in line at the supermarket check-out would think me uncharitable.  The cashier asks,‘Would you like to donate a meal to the X house for the poor?’  Naturally, it is deliberate that her script obliges that any answer other than an enthusiastic ‘Oh, yes please! I would love nothing more!’ renders


No, thanks!

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