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Post by Zach on Apr 5, 2007 11:50:23 GMT -6
Exactly! If there weren't as many rich, the poor would have better lives! Thanks for the info Travis and WELCOME BACK!
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plato123
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Post by plato123 on Apr 7, 2007 6:54:47 GMT -6
Poverty may be defind as a trend produce where people failed to share what the have with each other, including wisdom,food, friendship etc thereby generating inequity- a state of differences reffer as rich and poor, classes and levels, first class citizens and lower class citizens etc. I completely believe that air being essential are made enough for us all likewise food, education, love, charity, giving and receiving etc are so many avaliable within us all, if only we can manage it proper to eliminate all those negetivity in human's life to bring peace and understanding where we will together share others feelings. So poverty means to me a product of inequity.
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Post by diomday on Apr 29, 2007 4:33:02 GMT -6
Poverty is a difficult condition of life in which someone needs something necessary for his well being.The poverty cannot be defined exactly because each one is poor somewhere in his life. Certain in love,kindness,duties,moral values and the others in money,infrastructures,health and so on. Poverty is relative! Butwe have to know that too many people are suffering of the worst condition of life because of poverty.We have to change the system in which poor continues being poor.
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Post by hekatea on May 2, 2007 10:12:21 GMT -6
(1)Poverty is when you burn your mother to death because you are too sick seeing her being eaten by rodents bit by bit and day by day and hearing her lamentations every night. (2)Poverty is when you live in a shanty at the corner of a private subdivision and all your neighbors think that you will rob them.(3) Poverty is when your son died in the hospital because of negligence on the part of the doctors and the hospital staff, and they told you that the cause of death was a medical/scientific which you couldn't even read, and the hospital refused to let you take your son home because you haven't paid for the bills. (4) Poverty is when animals are better off than you.
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Post by fathiamar on May 4, 2007 1:41:28 GMT -6
(1)Poverty is when you burn your mother to death because you are too sick seeing her being eaten by rodents bit by bit and day by day and hearing her lamentations every night. (2)Poverty is when you live in a shanty at the corner of a private subdivision and all your neighbors think that you will rob them.(3) Poverty is when your son died in the hospital because of negligence on the part of the doctors and the hospital staff, and they told you that the cause of death was a medical/scientific which you couldn't even read, and the hospital refused to let you take your son home because you haven't paid for the bills. (4) Poverty is when animals are better off than you. True. True. Need to do everything that we can to eradicate poverty so that there wont be such events.
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Post by alyssamilanofan on May 4, 2007 8:51:58 GMT -6
I think animals are our equals actually, at least they should be, human beings are an animal speci...
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Post by hekatea on May 4, 2007 11:07:04 GMT -6
I think animals are our equals actually, at least they should be, human beings are an animal speci... That's right It's just the way of life. But we have a saying in Filipino, "mahirap pa sa daga" or "poorer than mouse" which states extreme poverty and hunger since rodents thrive in left-over and dirty/soiled food/places. In the Kingdom, animal kingdom, there's always a hierarchy and the food chain.
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Post by AK on May 6, 2007 2:28:49 GMT -6
(1)Poverty is when you burn your mother to death because you are too sick seeing her being eaten by rodents bit by bit and day by day and hearing her lamentations every night. (2)Poverty is when you live in a shanty at the corner of a private subdivision and all your neighbors think that you will rob them.(3) Poverty is when your son died in the hospital because of negligence on the part of the doctors and the hospital staff, and they told you that the cause of death was a medical/scientific which you couldn't even read, and the hospital refused to let you take your son home because you haven't paid for the bills. (4) Poverty is when animals are better off than you. Very true and very very well put hekatea.The world is totally unfair to poor people.We need to empower poor people so that they can at least take charge of their own lives and not become mere puppets in the hands of the rich.Enough fake promises have been made to the poor, it's time when there is action and not just lmere ip-service. Karma for you hekatea.
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Post by SoHuda on May 6, 2007 11:04:35 GMT -6
I think animals are our equals actually, at least they should be, human beings are an animal speci... we're not equal with animals.. I mean they're animals... we're different.. yes we are all creatures but we're not equal!!
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Post by alyssamilanofan on May 8, 2007 9:15:11 GMT -6
we are actually an animal speci... We just like to think we're smarter and better than animals..
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Post by SoHuda on May 9, 2007 3:45:42 GMT -6
we are actually an animal speci... We just like to think we're smarter and better than animals.. so we're not smarter than them? do animals have brains?
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Post by alyssamilanofan on May 9, 2007 7:04:23 GMT -6
yeah animals have brains (otherwise they wouldn't be able to move or anything) I think they're smarter than us at times some of them can survive in the worst kind of situations so yeah I think we're equal (we're not the same but we're all worth just as much we're really not that different in a lot of situations)
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Post by ViCtoria* on May 9, 2007 9:44:13 GMT -6
I think that, in order to establish if humans are animals are equal, we should ask ourselves: if we are equal, why don't we go and live with them, in their natural habitats? Why do we possess these privileges as a computer, manufactured goods, etc? Could other animals have made them now?
But going back to how to define poverty, I think it's not only when youfeel you don't have enough 'money', but also a state of emotions when you feel you are lacking some or all of your basic needs in life and cannot overcome these.
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Post by SoHuda on May 9, 2007 11:31:17 GMT -6
yeah animals have brains (otherwise they wouldn't be able to move or anything) I think they're smarter than us at times some of them can survive in the worst kind of situations so yeah I think we're equal (we're not the same but we're all worth just as much we're really not that different in a lot of situations) ok maybe they have brains.. but they don't think.. I mean their ability isn't like ours.. we believe in their importance and we should treat them good and feed them.. but still we're not equal..
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Post by Zach on May 9, 2007 16:34:50 GMT -6
But going back to how to define poverty, I think it's not only when youfeel you don't have enough 'money', but also a state of emotions when you feel you are lacking some or all of your basic needs in life and cannot overcome these. Right! I agree. Karma for you!
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Post by AK on May 9, 2007 23:44:12 GMT -6
But going back to how to define poverty, I think it's not only when you feel you don't have enough 'money', but also a state of emotions when you feel you are lacking some or all of your basic needs in life and cannot overcome these. Very well said, Victoria!It's not about money, it's about not being able to meet even one's basic needs.There's a sense of helplessness for not being able to meet one's needs, a sense of pent up anger for the unfair treatment life gives to the poor...but there is also hidden, a hope that perhaps some day things might get better... But that is the problem, that things aren't really getting better!The rich are getting richer and the poor, are getting poorer.Poor people should be educated and told that no one is going to do anything for them...no one will come to lift them out of poverty...They themselves have to rise and fight for their basic rights and rewrite their destinies! No government will listen to their cries, no organization can succeed in the fight for their cause, until THEY themselves come forward.They should know that it's not a stuggle, but a battle - a battle for their own life, their future generations, their own existence.They can't accept poverty as their fate!They should know that as human beings they deserve all the basic necessities and good things in life. But they have to get what they deserve, no one else will give it to them. Anyway, karma for Victoria.
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Post by harisstavr on Sept 24, 2007 12:41:44 GMT -6
Poverty is when you see people in the roads begging for some food. When you see families eating just bread ans cheese for lunch.... when you see children in the streets working for some elder ones who exploit them... when you want to eat or drink and you can't because you cannot afford to buy a loaf of bread or a small bottle of water...
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Post by AK on Sept 24, 2007 23:06:32 GMT -6
True, very true Haris...thanks a lot for your reply!
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Post by harisstavr on Sept 25, 2007 12:33:07 GMT -6
ur welcome my friend
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Post by chukwudiobi on Oct 16, 2007 22:33:13 GMT -6
Physical poverty is when you cant afford your basic needs be it food or other essentials.Mental poverty which is the worst kind of disease that will afflict any human being is when a person's watchword is ignorance. He does not beieve that he does not know and still iinsits that he knows.
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