What are you going to do today to make the world a better place to live for all mankind?

Question

Or will you just sit back with a chip on your shoulder & *****/complain about how life is only unfair to you & only you?

Answer 1

James 1:27
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."

Answer 2

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 3

My guess is neither of your scenarios will be played out by me. If I do something to improve things it'll probably be accidental and I haven't had a chip on my shoulder since puberty.

Answer 4

My contribution is to let the chips fall where they may, thus giving people the freedom to make their own choices, without trying to force them into anything.... And the rest of the Sunday starting in 10 minutes, I´ll stay away from R&S, as the fundies are soon flooding this place and report anything they come across.

Answer 5

Leaving shortly to help collect turkeys for hungry families in the Greater Hartford, Connecticut region... so everyone can enjoy a traditional holiday meal this Thanksgiving.

We've raised about 10,000 gobblers in the past week... need about 4,000 more (and a lot of cash) to meet our drive goals.

"We are our deeds."
Hail the Doers!

Answer 6

Share this: Experiential Faith

Our faith isn’t intellectual; it is experiential. We don’t know about God, we know Him. At the University of Chicago Divinity School, each year they have what is called “Baptist Day.” It is a day when the school invites all the Baptists in the area to the school because they want the Baptist dollars to keep coming in.

On this day each one is to bring a lunch to be eaten outdoors in a grassy picnic area. Every “Baptist Day” the school would invite one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education center. One year they invited Dr. Paul Tillich. Dr. Tillich spoke for two-and-a-half hours proving that the resurrection of Jesus was false. He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book. He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection, the religious tradition of the Church was groundless, emotional mumbo-jumbo, because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who, in fact, never rose from the dead in any literal sense. He then asked if there were any questions.

After about 30 seconds, an old preacher with a head of short-cropped, woolly white hair stood up in the back of the auditorium. “Docta Tillich, I got one question,” he said as all eyes turned toward him. He reached into his lunch sack and pulled out an apple and began eating it. “Docta Tillich (crunch, munch), my question is a simple one (crunch, munch). Now, I ain’t never read them books you read (crunch, munch), and I can’t recite the Scriptures in the original Greek (crunch, munch). I don’t know nothin’ about Niebuhr and Heidegger (crunch, munch).” He finished the apple. “All I wanna know is: This apple I just ate—was it bitter or sweet?”

Dr. Tillich paused for a moment and answered in exemplary scholarly fashion: “I cannot possibly answer that question, for I haven’t tasted your apple.” The white-haired preacher dropped the apple core into his crumpled paper bag, looked up at Dr. Tillich and said calmly, “Neither have you tasted my Jesus.”

The 1,000-plus in attendance could not contain themselves. The auditorium erupted with applause and cheers. Dr. Tillich thanked his audience and promptly left the platform. “Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him” (Psalm 34:8). It has been well said, “The man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an argument.”

Answer 7

Wow! You must not think most people are really good, do you?
I choose to believe that there are very few people who complain about "how life is unfair to them and them only," as you say.

I am making little bags of treats for the 3rd graders whom I teach.

Teaching is one of the most rewarding jobs there is.

By the way, what are YOU doing?

Answer 8

no longer likely till there is greater stress and emphasis on their religions so as that greater human beings will proceed to be honest to their religions and stick to ethical values which will make the international a much better place to stay in.

Answer 9

Finish planning my lessons for school tomorrow. Educating kids is the best way I know to make the world a better place.

Answer 10

Does trying to bring the world back to God by talking to them on this site count as doing something.