No offence, but . . .

I would really like to go home. A very simple place of my own with a door that I can lock. I'm spending yet another evening sitting in a mall, trying to stall time before I have to face reality and return to the shelter where I occupy a space with 50 people not of my choosing. Some stand around and just swear at nothing. Others roam. Some seek sexual adventure. Arguing, threatening, bullying, fear, and dark hours without sleep . I dread it all.

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Anonymous

Feb 2, 2018 at 10:28pm

I'm not sure what the circumstances are that brought you into this situation, but I wish you the best. I've been there and it's so emotionally and physically exhausting. Good luck and pelase take care.

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Anonymous

Feb 2, 2018 at 10:53pm

According to my faith...

I imagine many who read this don't have any faith, but God is watching you suffering. Somewhere, everything is being written down in evidence.

Eventually all of this data is shaken down and when that happens, you're going to be a lot better off than say, a multimillionaire real estate developer.

Hang on

Feb 3, 2018 at 9:51am

Keep working with your case planner and get that place! I’ve housed 2 people this week already. It’s out there....everyday you have to work on it. Are you working even a little bit? That helps too. Labour ready or kitchens are desperate for help right now. You can do this.

@Anonymous

Feb 3, 2018 at 10:24am

You know this is what the ruling classes forced the peasants to believe so that they'd put up with being oppressed because one day they'd "get to heaven," right?

And, I mean, people who believe in God believe we have Judges to sit in the Place of God. God is not up in heaven; God has hands here in earth to do justice. We call them Judges, who sit on the Throne of God, as in the place of Jesus Christ, judging tribes, nations and individuals in Lordly order.

So rather than waiting for God to give you what God knows everyone needs, food, clothing and shelter, anyone destitute should be filing in the Law Courts (Law being a Divine Command, that is, the Command of God) for support from the Government, whose head, Her Majesty, is the "vicar of Christ in her Dominions." Not the Pope.

The Papacy would let people starve in the street while it gilded the Lily; the English people have never believed that. Subjection to the Monarch has a reciprocal duty in the monarch: protection of the subject. Protection doesn't just mean enforcement of criminal law, it means provision of the necessaries of life. Why would anyone obey a sovereign who did not provide the necessaries of life? Because the sovereign threatens to beat people who won't obey? That is utter lunacy.

Where...

Feb 3, 2018 at 12:33pm

On earth do you live!?

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Anonymous

Feb 3, 2018 at 8:31pm

Looks like there are a lot of real estate developers reading this!

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Anonymous

Feb 4, 2018 at 4:03am

It's so freaking sad to see another pathetic atheist slagging off faith.

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Hope so too!

Feb 5, 2018 at 9:40am

Friend, that sounds really awful and I wish I could do something to help. Wishing you a home, a secure door, a place to feel safe and have your own space. Everyone deserves that, and I have no idea folks manage without it. my spaces have often been tiny, grim, shared, etc. but holy am I grateful for them. You are damn tough to be making it through this. We're going to keep fighting like hell for actual housing in this city, I promise.

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Open to working it out

Feb 5, 2018 at 5:16pm

Who is this person who has housed two people already? Please provide some contact info. A Craig's list number, a hotmail account . . . Anything. I have to work on "it?" What's it? What are the concrete steps I have to take to acquire housing? What have I not done? How am I failing?

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Feb 5, 2018 at 5:38pm

I wish you the best. Please don't take this the wrong way, but your life will never change if you spend all day sitting around the mall.

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