From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2016110122255386238-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > People give me stuff all the time. I accept it and say thanks.  And, I   
   > give people things quite often. It's based on whether the thing in   
   > question is being used, or stored, or to be thrown away.  If I don't need   
   > something, I might just give it away. If I get a new whatever, I often   
   > pass my current whatever to someone who will use it. And I certainly have   
   > friends and family that buy things specifically to give them to me, often   
   > because I can't afford them myself.  I'm neither rich or poor, just sort   
   > of getting by.   
      
   Yeah, same here, except that just barely getting by...but I don't regard   
   something like going to church to be motivated by the prospect of getting   
   various things.   
      
   To  clear the whole thing up, I had mentioned that my church gave me a brand   
   new notebook computer and you responded that I'm getting some benefits from   
   my church connections, making it seem as though such benefits were almost   
   like a kind of incentive considering that you'd already mentioned in the   
   past that the pastor is getting a lot of money, which of course he is and   
   which I have no doubt whatsoever, is a powerful motive for him...but not for   
   me, even though, considering the precarious, to say the least, situation I'm   
   in, I wouldn't mind having that at least to some extent, alleviated as well.   
      
   > I hate to see churchies being conned .... and that's the bottom line to   
   > that tale.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Our church also operates a food pantry, and it seems that there's always   
   those who make a practice of conning food pantries too.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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