...greed
So tonight I was watching the show 'Medium' with my family.. I almost started puking. At the beginning she was having this dream, and it's this man giving this "motivational" seminar on how to make money or something and he's asking people how far they would go for money. He goes up to this one lady, she looks to be about... 40, married, (her husband was sitting beside her) overweight. And he asks her "how much money do you make a year?" and she responds that she's not willing to answer, he says he'll give her 200 bucks right then if she told him/the audience. So she answers. Next he asks her "are you wearing clean underware?" She's slightly taken aback. He sees this and offers her 100$ to answer him. So she takes his money and says "Yes, I am wearing clean underware.".. what happens next.. I'm still shaken over it.. like I'm in tears. He then proceeds to ask her if she'd take off her clothes right then and there for double her anual salary (I believe she said 35 grand or something) She says "no, I can't." And he puts on pressure to her to do it, raising the stakes to 2 million dollars. Her husband is sitting beside her encouraging her to do it. This man looks at her and says to her in disgust "You can? or you won't? How far will you go for money?" and she says "I won't." Next, the man looks at her husband and says "Will you do it?" the husband says "Take off my clothes for two mill? sure." He starts taking off his shirt when the man says "No, I'm asking if you'll take off your wifes clothes." And the husband looks at his wife, she's crying and says "we're going" and gets up to go when her husband grabs her and starts ripping off her clothes. She trys fighting him off when he yells "Thousand bucks to anyone who'll help me!!!" And the last shot is this lady screaming on the ground while all these people just dog pile ontop of her ripping off her clothes. At first, I got really angry. My dog actually got scared of me and my mom was trying to calm me down. And now I just can't stop crying. Like I feel sick to my stomach, like spiritually sick. I hate it, I'm just thinking about how all these people just strive for money. How people are willing to prostitute themselves for something so stupid. And the more I think about it, the more I'm realizing that some people would actually go as far as betraying the love loyalty trust friendship they have just for money. That someone would actually rip off their crying ashamed wifes clothes infront of hundreds just for money. Two million is a lot of money, but thats nothing compared to happyness. I know.. it was only a show.. but right now.. there are little girls selling themselves.. right now there's probably someone watching that exact same show and wondering what was wrong with that lady that she couldn't just demean herself in that manner for two million, there's people agreeing with the husband. There's parents out working four jobs, just so they can have more money than they need, sacrificing their children for work, for money. And that, is wrong. That, is why I'm crying.

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Love you Lizer.
It's cool that your eyes are so open to things and that your heart breaks for the things that break Christ's heart. It's the weirdest thing, but one thing they taught us at the Prophesy conference (in Vancouver that we went to with Deels) was that just crying with/for broken ppl is so powerful, and demonstrative of the heart of God. His compassion is unreal.
Hug for today.
And one for tomorrow.
Be blessed!
MJ
Hey Ninja-E!!
I'm sorry for not leaving any messages for you on her for awhile! I do love you and I wish I could find more time to let you know I care...and how proud I am of you! I read this blog and just about started crying. I was so angry I went to the medium site to see if I could write a letter or something, but God started speaking to my heart about the things we really allow ourselves to see and speak. I love watching CSI but I wonder if there are psycho's out there that are watching these shows and getting ideas...hmmm...you have made me think...I'm so glad that you are keeping your eyes open to these things. I'm going to email you soon...I love you Eliza!!!
~Ashley
How's life NinjE?
Just checking in b/c you've not posted in a while. No pressure. Silence can be good, just letting you know I care. Praying for you.
OOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAEEEEOOOOOOH (that's me singing really high in opera voice just for you!)
Like ya for always,
MJ
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