Spare room? (From The Argus)

Karen says: "it's when we give that we receive"! If only !?!? Which raindrop did she come down on yesterday?

As long as two thousand years ago, the guy who's supposed to be the 'saviour of the world' managed to get that point right:

"Whoever has will be given more, whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him" (Mark 4:25).

Were you to apply your accountancy skills to the differentials in pay rises in the recent past, between 'those that have' and 'those that have not', perhaps you wouldn't expound such gibberish!

Oh dear, I start my day in deficit.

I'm grateful I have a home to share, friends to celebrate White Night with, the opportunity to blog on this site, a project to work on that I enjoy and endless opportunities to put my own advice into practice!

Let's hope your thread is widely read by the local community, Karen!

I'm sure all people of goodwill, during the coming festive days, will greatly value the presence of someone, like yourself, determined to seize some of the "endless opportunities" for putting their altruistic philosophy into practice -- helping those with 'nowhere to rest their weary heads' find a welcoming comfortable home.

I see from today's press an estimated 35,000 people will lose their homes between now and Christmas (that's 630 people every day!) ... so I'm sure you'll have no difficulty finding a great number of very grateful 'takers'!

Perhaps if 'anubis' were to give a little more they might find something to be thankful for instead of spreading petty spitefulness.
With all the unpleasantness and injustice in the world that you mention, loss of homes and lack of pay rises etc, surely being more selfish and not offering to help anyone or support charity is the answer? Or maybe NOT. What an absolute douche and the bag it came in.
Still your pointless hostility gives the rest of us something to chuckle at and in turn something to be thankful for, I like a good laugh. And as your lack of any notable wit combined with quoting the bible makes you look like an absolute nutter your comments give us something to gossip about, double win :D
Oh and as for the "raindrop she came down on" that would be the one that lands right on your head.

Dear Queen B ! Thank you for your obvious sincere comments – and although this not ‘my’ thread, it was good to be helped understand how my remarks could have been misunderstood by a chance reader (?), such as yourself.

I have always had strong feelings about ‘Homelessness’ (and considerable involvements)— roughly fifty years ago, I edited & authored a pamphlet on that topic; it sold many thousands of copies (centred on ‘half-way houses set up for families, broken by the government, wives, kids and husbands placed in different accommodations across London). The question was never properly dealt with ‘from above’; authorities always far removed from the deprivation and hopelessness of those unfortunate persons.

Probably the worst aspect of being without a home (as opposed to a ‘holiday dosh’ for a couple of nights) is the associated despair, the problems of finding work, and the alienation partly engendered by the misrepresentation of the ‘true score’ by local authorities and central government. For those who really care, the recent Dale Farm evictions, from land the occupiers had purchased (!), were a classic example – and if you are in the habit of reading local forums, you will have noticed Anubis had plenty to say on that matter a couple of weeks ago.

Stating the very obvious, we are currently living under a government that is meticulously ‘setting the clock back’, routinely and systematically removing the benefits ‘across the board’ that previous generations achieved through their struggles and sacrifices. If you think things are grim now, ‘you aint seen nothing yet’ … yet, as is usual in these sort of so-called ‘economic crises’, the millionaires are getting richer, the giants of industry have ‘never had it so good’. Not only are there three parties pursuing identical policies, at this point in time, there is no genuine united ‘opposition’ anywhere to be seen. That’s where it is SO different from 1945.

Understandably and unfortunately, most individuals prefer not to really ‘get involved’ in other people’s problems (for constructive and meaningful commitment means the loss of much ‘free time’, probably much expense … and often little recompense (apart from the self-satisfaction from doing something positive). All that’s fair enough; we live in a relatively free country and nobody has the right to tell others what they should do with their time.

Having said that, you will perhaps understand my slight irritation when Karen reported her implied ‘search for rewarding friendships’ based upon offering a spare room … no crime in that, but I did feel the need to place her scenario in the wider environment. (of course, there is nothing to be said against ‘helping strangers or supporting a charity’ !!) Unfortunately, in isolation, it appeared to you as “pointless hostility”. Likewise, unhappy your feeling my ‘Bible quote’ was a cause for laughter, and demonstrated my being a nutter; Karen had opened her piece by saying ‘when we give we receive’, which is a paraphrase of the Biblical Luke 6: 38 -- I responded, quoting the same source, but stating the exact opposite. Mystified why only my ‘quote’ illustrates mirth-provoking ‘nuttiness’?! (If you mistake me for a ‘nutty true believer’, you should look at my comments on “Hate Crimes and Gravestones”, only a few inches away from you!)