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We shouldn't really help homeless people should we?

Jet said:
I think it is very difficult to explain everything that happens to us as something we chose for ourselves. I have given this a lot of thought. What I come up with is that sometimes sh-t happens. I think we are all in the Creator's motion picture until we evolve out of it.

Just. My. Thoughts.
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I agree ,that while 'karma' is part of our fate ,we are being given lessons which we would not necessarily choose ,or even guess at
as we are being 'evolved' or 'developed' by someone who knows everything while we are still infants .We are in a programme of learning
and suffering comes until we learn to love properly .
 
Polaris8 said:
That's a tuff question to answer. Living in San Francisco I see and experience this everyday. As soul we all chose to experience certain things while we are here as we all have free will. Being homeless is one of them. Certainly we all have experience this state of awareness in this life or in lives lived long ago. So its a soul lesson to learn that is for sure. However it is very complex as to how one arrives there. Mental illness, drug uses, loss of job, divorce, loved ones die on you ect…. Yes much of it is karmic in nature however the karma is not there to punish one but to teach one soul a lesson by experience. Helping by giving money on the street is a kind act from the heart however it will not solve the problem in the long run. And many use this as a way to make a living although a marginal one at best.

The old saying give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime would be better way to help the homeless. For many do not know how to navigate thru life on the physical plane every well. So it's a matter of if they want to change or not. Although some don't have the mental or emotional ability to change in that direction in which case they need help in another direction altogether. So there is nothing wrong with helping the homeless. It's a matter of how to help in the long run which would be the answer. Giving to social programs that help change the directions of those that have no place to go is a start.
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Yes it is a lesson to be studied in how to help those who are genuinely desperate and will use kind gestures and help from 'institutions ',and those who are hardened and cynical and determined not to learn anything . However as a Christian I know that there is no better help than grace from believe
and hope in Jesus over time ; it shows up in true astrology .
 
iwishicouldtellyou said:
I believe in helping all in need. When I die, I would rather have lived a lifetime of giving and helping people, rather than having a large bank account. No matter what you have when life is done you are no greater or less of a person. Status symbols leave us when we leave this earth.

Therefore, helping the homeless and others when you can makes sense. Not out of some feel old Hallmark moment. But because in the end, everything you leave behind on this plane doesn’t follow you into the next life.
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I think what follows you is 'grace '.
 
How you see others and experience the world around you is a reflection of what's happening within. For example, I gave a con man some food one day to which he replied, "What? I want money not food!" But I did the same for an actual homeless man and he felt so much love and thanked God in front of me. What's more? He said, "Bless you." He didn't say, "Bless me." The question becomes, how do you choose to see and interact with the world? The right attitude is the key to success. If you are to scrutinize anyone, let it be yourself so you might find salvation.
 
I bought some food for a couple of young homeless men on the street recently. (I never give money, only food.) To have seen their face light up and the lovely smile they'd given me was a gift indeed. It's humbling to go back to a warm, comfortable house and think of the conditions they have to sleep in. They made no complaint about the freezing conditions. On a bleak day when my own life was falling apart, I felt I'd received far more than I gave, and learned something in the process.
 
JustinTime said:
If reincarnation and karma are true, then people who are homeless, begging on the streets, are precisely there because they have been troublesome in their past life and are now reaping the karma for their bad actions in another life.

So the logical thing to do is NOT to help them, right? By helping them, you are actually hurting them, as you are preventing them from paying off their karma.

Based on the principles discussed in this forum, there is a reason some people are homeless. They were troublesome in their previous life and are now reaping what they sowed. So don't help homeless people. Let them burn in their karma. They had no mercy in past lives when they were in positions of power. They deserve no mercy now.
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I have my own explanation about Karma and past lives.

A. Karma,
Have you ever done something with your best intention and without knowing, you were hitting someone? Have you ever meet someone that is a “bad” person but everything goes great for him/her?
Well this is because Karma is based on intentions and not in actions. For example, if you help someone without waiting for something in exchange, your Karma will be better than if you do the same action but thinking about a profit or knowing that you re going to affect someone else.

2. Homeless
We have all of us chose what we wanted to learn in this life. Personally, I know I have an intrepid soul, and I want to try everything in this life. Being rich, having so little, living in the most modern city, living in a desert.
3 years ago I changed my comfortable life for a life with more challenges (but I’m not that intrepid, i know I ca always come back to my past life)
So for me homeless are people that made their choice before born, maybe because they wanted to see the other side of things or maybe as a punishment... we never know.
But maybe the thing that they are going to learn in this life is trusting people, accepting help, reinforcing the dignity without material things ... and maybe in this life, you’re supposed to learn how to share, how to concede...
 
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