Every Social Community lives off the user. Of course, they invest a lot of brains and esthetics – not to mention sleepless nights – into giving you an engaging platform. But at the end without you they have nothing but thrown-out money. You are the capital. You are the marketing and the marketers. You are the prosumer.
And you are truly phenomenal. By joining network after network, inviting your friends, sharing your interests, pasts, and posts you give Facebook and MySpace substance. While doing exactly the same with Kaioo you can help people in need. Now also the network effect kicks in and you can even tell your 450 friends, which you wouldn’t have if not for MySpace, to join in on the Real Social. All there is left then, is the decision to which charities the Money goes to. How much money could this actually be? It is estimated that in 2008 Social Communities earn US$ 2 Billion. Take a second to digest this: You are the ones who generated that much wealth – just by being human: a social animal. Kaioo is now giving you the platform to be generous with it!

What could be done with US$ 2 Billion every year:
-buy the whole rainforest that is left and save it sustainably in 9 years
-save thousands of animals from becoming extinct
-save the lifes of countless poor people
-stop climate change
-help the Third World becoming save and well-regulated and thus lessen the population explosion
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For more information check out: http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2008/09/25/finance-industry-giving-visualized/

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Is giving 10% of your money the right thing to do?

There was an old tradition in the Jain religion that if one person in the community lost his business or went bankrupt each family in the community would donate 1 “dollar” and 1 brick to that person’s family. So if there are 10,000 families in the community the person would receive 10,000 dollars and 10,000 bricks so he can have a small house and start a business. That was the commitment among Jains and that is why Jains are the richest in India today.

It is unclear where the origin of tithing 10% of one’s income to the church comes from. Today tithing is done in the name of God and that is the wrong thing to do. First of all, God is not a person. He does not need your money and he will not punish you if you do not give. According to the church’s teaching, we are all God’s children so why would God punish his children? For churches to ask 10% of a person’s income means the church wants to get rich. No wonder churches are very rich. The fact that the church requires tithing is a practice gone too far. Some churches will go as far as looking at the tax returns of its members. This makes these churches very greedy.

If someone goes to church to learn good things it is respectable to give voluntarily. Whatever amount he can give is the equal to what someone else gives. Whatever is given from the heart has meaning. It brings good karma. What is taken by force does not bring good karma to the church.

If a church gets too greedy eventually it defaults. Money that is collected by forceful means is the wrong money. That church will never flourish. When money is given by heart that church or organization will flourish. The greedier a church gets for money that money does not serve the community but only benefits them.

*tags* spiritual, spirituality, spiritual teacher, spiritual guru, spiritual master, seeker, truth, enlightenment, peace, self-realization, meditation, awareness

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