Hipster,

What point are you saying we are missing ?
If she took money then why did she show no benefits as she lived a very poor life ?

Please explain !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 01/09/2010 16:14:26    762640

hipster.
i think what he means is , you are on here defending muslim extremist and calling everyone a racist who sees through the mist .
yet u attack mother teresa who has championed the poor and needy for years , dare i say your comments could be of anti- catholic bigotry , but that is ok to attack the catholic faith and its martyrs , but do not say nothing about mohammed . double standards a wee bit there hipster .

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 01/09/2010 16:21:27    762651

sure bob geldof and band aid raised millions upon millions for africa , but were did it all go .
i would not blame old bob .

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 01/09/2010 16:23:10    762653

she went around the world with a begging bowl getting tens of millions to help her help the poor but only a fraction of this money found its way to the poor and sick , we all have to open our eyes to what the catholic church would have us believe and even what any religion would have us believe its all hocus pocus

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 01/09/2010 16:31:47    762668

Hipster,please explain how your point is true.Where is the money?

seanie_boy (Tyrone) - Posts: 4235 - 01/09/2010 17:05:25    762721

Hipster I believe you are arguing the unargueable! I cant believe Im saying it but Ta makes a very good point above. There's an awful case of double standards.

Corrxxx (Kerry) - Posts: 584 - 01/09/2010 17:07:09    762725

all of the money live aid went to the where they said it would go , as for the money threasa raised it went to a bank in the vatican

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 01/09/2010 17:38:11    762764

hipster.
u say all the money raised for band aid went to the right departments and the people who needed it .
oh hipster i wish you were right , but a lot of that money went missing as soon as it was supposedly was distrubited to the proper channels .
there was millions missing this was no secret , as for the money mother teresa raised , now i am sure she was not the finance minister for the vatican was she ?
this womens job was to ease the suffering and poor regions of which she worked tireslly all her life , and she never asked for anything in return .
your away off the mark hipster , you are not making any sense whatso ever , and i do not mean that as a insult .

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 01/09/2010 17:49:00    762779

ta 32 i just answered like most people did on mother threasa please dont insult this man he raised millions fot the starving he is a living saint blah blah blah

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 01/09/2010 17:54:33    762788

ta the money went into her orders bank account if she raised money for the poor it should have gone to the poor not building churches or buying gold fleece robes and ta a lot of stuff you read about her was made up , you should do a bit of invistigating

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 01/09/2010 17:59:07    762796

hipster.
i never insulted bob geldof , i merely said the man had no control over the funds raised , just as mother teresa did not .
do you get what i am saying , bob geldof is a good man i never said any different , please read my thread again .

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 01/09/2010 18:00:49    762799

hipster.
i really am trying to be kind , what is it that mother teresa was supposed to do wrong , because i am lost with ye on this one honestly .
a women who was poor her whole life , but yet controlled or partly controlled the vaticans finance coffers , directly or indirectly well ?

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 01/09/2010 18:07:31    762807

Hipster,

Who told you that, is there any proof ?

Paper never refuses ink !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 01/09/2010 18:28:23    762826

ta32,

I think he is Dan Brown in disguise !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 01/09/2010 18:48:57    762842

cavanslasher.
or that fellow in windtalkers

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 01/09/2010 18:52:20    762846

ignorance is bliss

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 01/09/2010 18:53:12    762847

hipster
County: Dublin
Posts: 1686

762847 ignorance is bliss

Indeed and a half truth is a full lie.

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 01/09/2010 20:29:40    762928

A lady who visited Calcutta watched Mother Theresa tending to a dying diseased man covered in sores. She stayed with him for his last hours so he wouldn't leave this world all alone. When twas over the lady said to Mother Theresa I wouldn't do what you did there for a million pounds. Mother Theresa looked up and said "Neither would I". Obviously hipster feels he has the high moral ground compared to Mother Theresa, only one question for you hipster, Would you do it?.

corkcelt (Cork) - Posts: 4388 - 01/09/2010 21:00:02    762953

hipster
County: Dublin
Posts: 1686

762788 ta 32 i just answered like most people did on mother threasa please dont insult this man he raised millions fot the starving he is a living saint blah blah blah

Hipster, Maybe mother Teresa raised money and didnt ask any questions of where it went. She also went on the ground dishing out love and compassion to the people of Calcutta. Bob very honourably raised money for the starving in Ethiopia, but did he really follow up where the money went either, not to mind getting knee deep with the people of Ethiopia for the rest of his life. Well?

Its interesting to note that BBC Radio 4's Martin Plaut, interviewed former rebels and NGO employees involved in aid work during the 1984-1985 famine. According to Aregawi Berhe, at one time a commander of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF), only 5% of the $100m (£65m) in aid money went to feed the starving. Of this $100m, a sizeable amount likely came from Bob Geldof's Band Aid campaign, including the Do They Know It's Christmas? single and the Live Aid concerts, which involved U2, Paul McCartney, Madonna and many more.

Rebel soldiers allegedly disguised themselves as grain traders, exchanging camouflaged bags of sand for thousands of pounds at a time. "We showed them huge amounts of grains," Gebremedhin Araya, former head of finance for the TPLF, told the Australian. "But if you go there, half of the warehouse is stacked full of sand collected from the Tekeze River. We tricked them as well as possible."

"The rebel leaders put [the money] in their accounts in western Europe, in so many different places," he said. "Some of it was used to buy weapons. The people did not get half a kilogram of maize." This claim is supported by a CIA assessment from 1985, in which the American intelligence agency claimed that "some funds [meant] for relief operations ... are almost certainly being diverted for military purposes". (extract from guardian 05/03/10)

Corrxxx (Kerry) - Posts: 584 - 02/09/2010 10:05:18    763108

corkcelt of course she did she was a woman in ways in other ways she was not and i would expect any decent human to do the same , but your missing my point ignorance as i said is bliss and corxxx we all know money was mismanaged it seems to happen a lot where raising for the poor is concerned

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 02/09/2010 17:55:30    763739