MacNCheezus

Meh. Been there, done that. Nowadays I'd rather have a sucky time that might be good at the end.

What types of poor decisions?

Poor decisions with regard to the use of their natural (i.e. God-given) talents. Nobody is ever going to make perfect decisions in all areas of their lives, and that's not what Jesus requires, either. After all, the whole point of people having different talents is for them to work to together so they can complement each other's abilities.

From the top level comment of the comment thread I read it as finance as that's the thing related to food in the original post.

My point was merely to show that the biblical Jesus does in fact stop investing in people because he's not seeing any results from them. It's not really my fault if you're reading in things about shareholder value or whatever, is it?

Supply Side Jesus on the other hand tells us that it's not worth investing our time and resources into people who are poor, and that instead the rich will lead us to have an efficient church.

Yes, but remember that Supply Side Jesus is a caricature, and it's created by exaggerating certain aspects of Jesus and diminishing others. But so is socialist Jesus, who only heals and feeds people for free and never asks for anything in return.

That is fundamentally backwards to Christianity, as it is the poor, the hurt and the suffering who need it the most.

I agree, and there are plenty of exhortations on that in the Gospel where Jesus reminds people to use their riches to take care of the poor among them. But he does not let the poor off the hook either, like in the story you mentioned earlier with the poor woman giving what little she has being more righteous than the rich man who donates very little. Meanwhile, proponents of socialist Jesus seem to think they should only ever receive blessings and not be asked to give anything back. They are like the guy in the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, who had his debt forgiven by his master and then beat up his fellow man for owing him a fraction of that.

The long and short of it is that in order for the whole Jesus thing to work, you cannot just sit around all day and wait to be fed. You do at least have to make an effort to contribute something, however little it might me, otherwise you're wasting your talents.

Best I can do

That's like saying "too bad you didn't get drunk with us, you missed out on all the fun that happened before everyone threw up"

Good parents do.

啊，你为什么不马上说呢？

Not really. I still remember all the hype for season 6 or whatever, everyone and their mom hosting watch parties for the finale, and then all of them being massively disappointed because it apparently it sucked sooo bad lol

你是说中国人不喜欢炒饭？

You cannot spoil either for me because I simply refuse to watch them.

I honestly think it’s kinda retarded that modern society has this expectation that everyone be awake at the same time during the day.

Clearly there is an evolutionary advantage to having people who naturally prefer different sleep cycles and are willing to be up all night and sleeping during the day — in primitive societies, someone would have to stay up to tend to the fire and watch out for predators in the early morning hours, for instance.

Thanks for your response, but I don’t think I was promoting prosperity gospel? I understand that this parable is a favorite of theirs, but as you correct pointed out, there’s more to Jesus than that, and the point of the parable is by no means to rag on poor people, but on people who make poor decisions.

My understanding is that if someone has little talent but still makes the most of it, that person is still more welcome in the Kingdom of Heaven than someone who has a lot but makes little use of it. In other words, if it was the servant who received the most money who ended up burying it and making no profit, it would have been him who would be cast out instead. See also the Parable of the Wedding Feast, where everyone receives exactly the same (an invitation to the king’s wedding), but one person shows up without the proper clothes on.

The meme is attempting to caricature Conservative’s idea of Jesus by alleging that the biblical Jesus would never put profit over people. But as the parables I mentioned show, that is in fact inaccurate and thus promotes a liberal caricature of Jesus who feeds people endlessly without ever asking for anything in return.