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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  The situation that manifests scarcity is this one: I desire bananas, and the universe gives me a banana. I'm pissed off that I only got one banana instead of a whole bunch, since I want a lot more than one. I resent the fact that I have only one banana, while somebody else right next to me got two. That's totally unfair. I guess that if I want more bananas, I'll have to find a way to get them. But isn't that greedy? After all, there are people who have no bananas. How can I justify having bananas when so many people have none? And so on... |
I'm not a Christian, but this reminds me of the parable of the vineyard workers in
Matthew 20. The workers who work all day in a man's vineyard get a full day's wage, but complain that the people who worked for only one hour get the same wage. There's that same idea of being grateful rather than being ungrateful there, though it's not quite the same context.