• SoupBrick@pawb.social
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    23 days ago

    That’s why 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck! All they have to do is invest the pennies they have left over! Crazy how a group of people that motherfucking huge aren’t just pulling themselves up by their bootstraps!

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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      23 days ago

      I think the moral of that story is that you should at least make a bare minimum effort in order to justify your existence. The Parable of the Wedding feast has a very similar lean: there, a guy gets thrown out of the wedding (after having been invited for free because the original guests wouldn’t come) because he wouldn’t even dress up for it.

      The point is, there ARE examples of Jesus cutting people off because they’re not worth his continued investment in them.

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        21 days ago

        What?

        I just want to point out that in the wedding illustration, that guy who gets thrown out it’s not because he didn’t put an effort dressing

        He was thrown out because he he could not have got inside the building without the wedding garment

        So he shouldn’t be there

        That’s why they thrown him out

        Because he was not recognized as being one of the invited AND chosen in any of the 3 rounds of invites that went out , the dude had to go.

        The whole deal is basically telling people at the time that each rejected invitation made you part of his enemies, and even then if you tried to pass as if you had been invited and chosen, you’d be found out