{"id":151,"date":"2006-03-15T18:39:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/wp\/wp\/2006\/03\/15\/the-ten-commandments-of-poverty\/"},"modified":"2006-03-15T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T13:09:10","slug":"the-ten-commandments-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/15\/the-ten-commandments-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Commandments of Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demonstrating compassion for the poor used to be an industry. Lately, it’s become a religion, as demonstrated by this post<\/a>, this one<\/a>, and this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like every other religion, this one too has its commandments. Here they are:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Poor are Holy, and must be venerated for their poverty.<\/li>\n
  2. Poverty is mysterious, and cannot be understood by the privileged- they are Infidels.<\/li>\n
  3. But even among the privileged, there are The Compassionate- Anointed Ones who can understand the mysterious ways of poverty.<\/li>\n
  4. The Anointed Ones must educate the Infidels, and show them the error and folly of their ways.<\/li>\n
  5. The Anointed Ones may use images of the poor to demonstrate their compassion. To use images of the poor for any other reason is a sin.<\/li>\n
  6. To subject poverty, the Holiest of Holies to rigorous analysis, using evidence or logic is a sin. Infidels will use these, but they are traps of the devil. Faith in the Anointed Ones is enough.<\/li>\n
  7. The Infidels will worry more about their own life than about the Other Life and their relationship with the Holy Poor. The Anointed Ones must save them. The Other Life is far more important.<\/li>\n
  8. The Anointed Ones must always speak only of the core truths of the Holy Scripture that they have written. Responding to the queries of the Infidels cheapens Holy Poverty.<\/li>\n
  9. The Holy Scripture is eternal and unchanging, and need not ever be changed to reflect new knowledge. Only the knowledge possessed by the Anointed Ones matters.<\/li>\n
  10. The Anointed Ones are always superior, because they are Anointed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Demonstrating compassion for the poor used to be an industry. Lately, it’s become a religion, as demonstrated by this post, this one, and this one. Like every other religion, this one too has its commandments. Here they are: The Poor are Holy, and must be venerated for their poverty. Poverty is mysterious, and cannot be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-public-policy-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-2r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}