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Short Story: The unemployed beggar became a Bank Manager

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 29 Jun 22

Ron Oloid had been unemployed for many years now. He just did not know how to apply for a job, and nor did he know what type of job that he would be best suited for. Ron just was afraid, and hesitant, of putting himself...

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Short story: The Beggar who preached

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 6 Jan 22

Alf Joltharth had been living on the streets as a beggar for more than twenty years. Then, suddenly he began to preach on the steps of the Post Office building, in the capital city of his state. His first talk went like...

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A beggar and her child followed me home

TerribleMan @TerribleMan (579) • India 24 Oct 21

I had this dream last night. I went to the city and a beggar woman with her child followed me home and stayed in the garden. I was worried how to chuck them out. I got up in the middle of the night to see if they are still...

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Zen story: The enlightened beggar

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 28 Aug 21

A beggar once approached the esteemed Zen master, Rukas Zerjukhle, and asked him for a handout. The master said: "Wake up from your beggarness, by asking me for Zen, not money." The beggar, thought to himself,...

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Jewish tale: An old Jew dies on the street, unknown, unnoticed by all

emptychair @innertalks (23739) • Australia 13 Jun 21

Shabler Akuvlich was a beggar, in a big city. He had been so for twenty years, ever since his wife had left him for a wealthy businessman, instead of him. He had left their house, saying to his wife, [i]"Have all of this...

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Is she using her child to get help?

[eds] @ZedSmart (19839) • Philippines 28 Nov 20

Along the corners of the streets where I pass daily, most of the time I notice a woman standing at one corner under the shade of the ornamental plants grown at the side of restaurant building. She will then knock on windows of...

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i have to say something

muhammad iqbal @happylife1 (13403) • Karachi, Pakistan 1 Jan 20

poverty does not lies in one place.it is problems all over the word and even in advanced country homeless peoples are there .in such a chill beggars are wandering without covering their bodies properly a woman putt off his jacket...

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 15 Jan 19

Day 4 Acts 3-4:4 Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the...

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 19 Dec 18

Day 18 John 9 John 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered,...

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POVERTY and Old Age

[eds] @ZedSmart (19839) • Philippines 13 Sep 18

Whenever I see a person walking in the streets begging something for their survival really broke my heart especially if the person is old age or have disability. Things are very difficult when you get old or invalid...

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Too much!

Jessa Mae @Sammilita (228) • Philippines 19 Aug 18

Beggar asked me some money to buy food, so, I gave her P50 but she asked for more and got angry to me when I said "I don't have enough extra money left in my pocket and I have to buy medicines for my colds" . I hate that kind of...

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Would you wave back?

Nnaemeka @mydanods (6513) • Nigeria 9 Mar 18

If you're walking along the road and a homeless person or a beggar waves at you, would you wave back? Just something that peeked my curiosity.

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Beggars demonetising currency

yugocean @yugocean (9963) • India 10 Jan 18

We know government only can demonetise a legal currency; however there are people who can demonetise themselves, although that won't be legal demonetation Beggars in several Indian cities have 'demonetise' small currencies. In...

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A beggar thanked me saying "Arigato (thank you)"

Yanzalong @yanzalong (19091) • Indonesia 18 Oct 17

It seems that most of the things I experienced during my stay in London are still clearly seen in the back of my mind. One of them was when a beggar thanked me saying Arigato (thank you). He may have thought I was a Japanese...

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A Beggar Poem

S.L @Xiasses (319) 6 Sep 17

I sat. I stretched and opened my dirty hands. I listened to the sounds of the crowd that passed by. I stared at their feet. Hoping I will find a friend who will drop a coin into my palm.

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Begging for Money in a Restaurant

Michelle @infatuatedbby (94909) • United States 3 Apr 17

Yesterday, while standing in line to pick up our food - I smelt a foul odor. I didn't know what it was but turned out there was a lady who was begging for money. It may be from her. She kept asking everyone for money while they...

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MORNING BEGGAR - Asking for spare money

Michelle @infatuatedbby (94909) • United States 25 Jan 17

This morning - I went to go grab breakfast/brunch at a sandwich spot. It's a higher end sandwich place where you have your sandwiches personally made at the time you order, sort of like a Subway but double the price and better...

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Smiling Face of a Littile Boy

Vikas patel @vikas776 (73) • New Delhi, India 19 Jun 16

One day I was alone in my house. Main gate was half open and I was brooming the floor of hall. Then a lady with her son came near of main gate and start begging some breads. I was busy in my work so I didn,t give attention on...

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Begger's donation of gold rings

k sridharprasad @yugasini (12892) • Secunderabad, India 8 Feb 16

Hi Mylot Friends, As he himself poor so he became beggar, Khimjobhai Prajapathi from Gijarat, since long time he is beggar and begging at temples in Gujarat. He is saving all his beggar earnings regularly. He wish to propagate...

A beggar without any asset is richer than many working adults

scheng1 @scheng1 (24649) • Singapore 20 Dec 15

Getting into debt is worse than being poor. A beggar without any asset is richer than many working adults with high debt. The working adults are not working to get rich. They are working to pay off debt. If the debt is credit...

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