I'm Homeless But I'm Happy

[Macx]

Bacon2 was one of a series of screen names by a guy who . . . . well, that he is gone should tell you something about the quality of his advice.

So, Urban Monk, are you doing anything for others or is this life style choice all about you?

 

[explodingboy]

It's sad to realize that someone is parenting who thinks that living out of a car would be a satisfying life. Hopefully you want more for your child.

Honestly I don't know how anyone manages to live out of a car

.. something about that car smell just makes me want to hurl,

I'll be much happier with a tent.

 

[Urban Monk]

It's sad to realize that someone is parenting who thinks that living out of a car would be a satisfying life. Hopefully you want more for your child.

I'm not a daddy yet, I'm still waiting for my finances to get better so I can get a girlfriend and have a baby

 

[Urban Monk]

Bacon2 was one of a series of screen names by a guy who . . . . well, that he is gone should tell you something about the quality of his advice.

So, Urban Monk, are you doing anything for others or is this life style choice all about you?

Definitely not just living this life for myself. This lifestyle is for the world. I'm trying to keep enough money so I can get a girlfriend, have a baby, raise that baby to be righteous, hopefully that baby will get into politics or become super rich so he or she can make this world a better financial place so no one will be poor or homeless again and hopefully spiritual peace will spread throughout the world

 

[HisLittleHazelnut]

Definitely not just living this life for myself. This lifestyle is for the world. I'm trying to keep enough money so I can get a girlfriend, have a baby, raise that baby to be righteous, hopefully that baby will get into politics or become super rich so he or she can make this world a better financial place so no one will be poor or homeless again and hopefully spiritual peace will spread throughout the world

I'd say wait for that "girlfriend" to be your wife at least before you have a baby...






But then again, now I should take the advice of "do not feed the troll."

 

[RealityPixie]

Gotta admit, I was a bit sceptical about your lifestyle as I assumed that you weren't working and were therefore probably living off gov handouts and otherwise 'mooching'. However, as I've read you have a job and just choose to sleep rough, then good on you. If it's what you choose to do and you arn't 'leaching' off the rest of society by choice then so be it.

It's not a lifestyle I could live personally but if that's what makes you happy then knock yourself out, I cannot judge. Your folks probably disaprove because it is outside of their comfort zone. Sounds like they are big on class and keeping up with the Joneses, your lifestyle would therefore be a (very uncomfortable) complete reverse of all their values.

 

[AdJesumPerMariam]

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[Urban Monk]

Bacon2 was one of a series of screen names by a guy who . . . . well, that he is gone should tell you something about the quality of his advice.

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Oh, well I guess I can't comment because I don't know about his other posts. But he did say some real stuff about the crazy way America( as well as other countries ) wants u to survive. He was saying that basically, the way society tells u to survive is a joke. $200,000 for a house, $50,000-$100,000 for an education; economics is all a bad joke. He was basically putting my beliefs about the economy in a interesting way and he was right. Now if just about everybody made $50,000 a year, then there would be nothing wrong with paying a mortgage for a $200,000 or $80,000 home. But when a lot of people only make about $8,000 or $15,000 a year, then buying a home or paying for college is not a realistic idea

 

[Shabby]

The median income for the United States is 50,000 a year...

 

[Urban Monk]

The median income for the United States is 50,000 a year...

That is a deceptive number. Even if it is true, it is only an average and it does not represent a realistic number. There are 2 problems with figuring out the average american income

1) They don't factor in people who are unemployed

2) Because of the fact that less than 1% of the population controls the money and are super rich, their income offsets the equation for figuring out the average income

I mean think about it, a lot of people that u meet will not be people mking $50,000 a year. I know a lot of people who work, but I don't know too many people( if anyone ) a who makes $50,000 a year.

 

[Macx]

I think he picked median rather than mean for that reason:

Medians in descriptive statistics
The median is primarily used for skewed distributions, which it summarizes differently than the arithmetic mean. Consider the multiset { 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 9 }. The median is 2 in this case, as is the mode, and it might be seen as a better indication of central tendency than the arithmetic mean of 3.166.
Calculation of medians is a popular technique in summary statistics and summarizing statistical data, since it is simple to understand and easy to calculate, while also giving a measure that is more robust in the presence of outlier values than is the mean.

From the Wiki on "Median".


I hear what you are saying UM, and of course I see it play out here in this neighborhood that has a greater population than some cities. This isn't where the rich people live. Walking around my 'hood, I am not going to run in to too many people who make the median. Gentry downtown and people south and west of here (because of the lakes), there'll be a pretty big spike in average household incomes, due south and east . . . is a residential sea that is largely at or near the median. Further out the incomes go up as it gets more suburban.

What you see depends on where you are at.

If you don't get around to the other zones in your city, it is easy to think that it is all like where ever you are.

 

[KGirl]

I will agree with what was stated that most people don't make enough to afford what is needed for a successful living. Ask the average people who work at Walmart.. And I thank God for His goodness that I will not be bound by the world's ways because He takes care of my needs. The job I work at only gives me part time hours. My husband has been out of a job for dumb reasons, and it's not easy getting jobs in general. We (by world standards) cannot afford to live in our own apartment (which is about the cheapest place I've seen). But God has been good to see us through one way or another, and He will be blessing us rather soon to be out of our situation.

 

[Urban Monk]

I will agree with what was stated that most people don't make enough to afford what is needed for a successful living. Ask the average people who work at Walmart..

This is the truth. And as far for Wal-Mart workers, it must be so depressing for them considering that most Wal-Marts sell just about everything u need but the Wal-Mart workers have to look at those items and can not afford a lot of them. Flat Screen TVs cost too much for them, Xbox 360s cost too much for them; even basic needs like clothes and food are too much for them. And yet these workers at Wal-Mart have to go to work everyday and look at a bunch of stuff they can not afford. However, they have to work to sell this stuff which will only make the upper level business workers of the company rich while the store workers get nothing

 

[Macx]

This is the truth. And as far for Wal-Mart workers, it must be so depressing for them considering that most Wal-Marts sell just about everything u need but the Wal-Mart workers have to look at those items and can not afford a lot of them. Flat Screen TVs cost too much for them, Xbox 360s cost too much for them; even basic needs like clothes and food are too much for them. And yet these workers at Wal-Mart have to go to work everyday and look at a bunch of stuff they can not afford. However, they have to work to sell this stuff which will only make the upper level business workers of the company rich while the store workers get nothing

Um sure, and think of the jewelry store salespeople! Oh, the humanity! Surrounded by cases, each one containg more than their year's salary!

I don't think the world works that way. I can't really think of a job where people's income exceeds the value of the merchandise. Even pro athletes and musicians with incredible incomes work around merchandise that exceeds their incomes (otherwise how could a team in a league afford to draft a player, how could a record label pay their techs).

 

[KGirl]

I think what he's saying is that your average person should be able to afford the average prices at least.

 

[Urban Monk]

I think what he's saying is that your average person should be able to afford the average prices at least.

Thats a perfect way of putting it. Everyone should be able to afford the basics of life. A nice 1 or 2 bedroom house should not be out of anybody's price range. Anything that a person needs should not require a financial struggle

 

[Macx]

Why?

 

[Urban Monk]

Why?

What do u mean why? Can u really call yourself a good person who worships God if u have to ask why the basic needs in life shouldn't require a financial struggle? But to answer your question, the basic needs of life shouldn't require financial struggle because God does not want the land to be monopolized only for a few people. God wants everyone to be able to live comfortably

 

[Macx]

I never said I was good.

Why do you think

Anything that a person needs should not require a financial struggle

and how does it agree with Genesis 3:

17Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it';
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
18"Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;
19By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return."

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In a world that isn't corrupted, you'd be right . . . but this isn't that world.

 

[KGirl]

We aren't saying that we shouldn't have to work for a living (as the bible states) but that the cost of living shouldn't be too high for your average working person.