Imagine giving yourself a name like "Heavenly Warrior", and then villainizing homeless people by calling them lazy.

@Heavenlywarrior I think we all saw what you said. Anybody who is homeless longer than 6 months is just lazy according to you. Because it's just so easy for homeless people to find a job. Yet you refuse to back up that claim.

@LordShadowfire so the issue is being homeless for more than six months. Any sane and able bodied person should be able to find work to get off the streets with the exception of a mentally disabled or physically disabled persons, it may take longer.

Anyone who doesn’t want to be homeless will take some initiative and make a way for themselves to no longer be homeless.

That initiative is work in itself. This isn’t hard to comprehend.

Whether they find a job at McDonald’s, 7 eleven, or some quick labor gigs which are all over, even under the table jobs can be found on Craigslist or newspapers / websites.

Or something your familiar with , someone squatting in someone else’s house to manipulate the system until they get on their feet.

@Heavenlywarrior Yeah, no, I get it. Anybody who is homeless for longer than 6 months has only themselves to blame. I'm still waiting for you to try and prove that.

@LordShadowfire you’re not talking about that challenge again are you?

@Heavenlywarrior I actually am. Since you're so convinced that it's easy for a homeless person to get a job and subsequently find an apartment, you shouldn't be afraid to try it yourself.

But you are.

Why?

@LordShadowfire I’m not afraid. I’ve been homeless before and worked two jobs and made a way. I don’t own a home yet like you do. I’m working my ass off to be a home owner but I could make the same excuse and say it’s hard for me and I’ve got all these issues so I can’t own a home…

No… I have to work my ass off . Some do it legally some illegally but it’s still work that everyone has to put in.

@Heavenlywarrior Okay. I have to ask. How long ago were you homeless?

@LordShadowfire one year ago

@Heavenlywarrior During the peak of the resurgence of the job market. After Biden created more jobs than any other president before him in my lifetime. And you were able to find two. Fascinating.

Follow-up question. What, if any, mental or personality disorders do you have?

@LordShadowfire I had depression, Anxiety and I was Addicted to Marijuanna and alcohol.

@LordShadowfire we can exclude the mentally disabled as well as physically disabled to a degree but everyone else there’s really not much of an excuse to be on the streets for more than 6 months in my opinion … that’s laziness

I’m mainly speaking of here in America those poverty stricken countries is a different story but I’m sure they have their own way to overcome their struggle

@Heavenlywarrior Not everyone is like you though, you're attributing your own issues and successes onto others and assuming that since you were able to do it, everyone else's issues and experiences are the same as you. That heavily depends on geographic location and resources.

On the invisible people channel it tells a lot of homeless stories, there's this one guy in California working 12 hour shifts at a factory and still couldn't afford rent. The list for getting any housing was two to three year wait. He certainly isn't lazy but he's still homeless.

I was willfully homeless once and make it close to getting a job but the people I kept living with were wrong and make it impossible. Every time I had an interview I used the money I begged for, for food cos it was either a bus or food and I was hungry.

I spent time in a homeless shelter but that shelter didn't help you look for jobs and they had a good neighbor policy that forbids any residents from looking for any work near the downtown location.

They also wanted you to do three church services daily and if you didn't make one, you are gone. They kicked you out. A lot of their residents had been there for nearly seven years.

Even the reviews about the place, they're heavily state funded and reviewers said how the preachers went on about gay people and the like.

It was a huge city and it was the only homeless shelter that would take you in. All the others you had to be a single mother or a man on the run from domestic violence in order to get any help. I shit you not, I'm not lying.

There's also addiction, I'm not an addict but there's less resources out there for people and less resources for people with more trauma than anyone else can imagine.

It's not really fair to say the homeless are lazy.

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You got to have somewhere to do laundry, look clean, if you don't have an address or references out on the street, good luck if that's a requirement. Good luck depending on food stamps too, the govt will tell you that you either have to be a single mother or something else similar I forgot what they told me.

But back in the day I wanted to apply to food stamps making seven hourly and they told me I made too much.

@Heavenlywarrior [quote]I had depression, Anxiety and I was Addicted to Marijuanna and alcohol.[/quote]
Pfft. Amateur. (I'm kidding, please don't get mad. But really, there's a lot of people with bigger problems than that.)
[quote]we can exclude the mentally disabled as well as physically disabled to a degree but everyone else there’s really not much of an excuse to be on the streets for more than 6 months in my opinion … that’s laziness[/quote]
So you're telling me that If you were an employer, you would hire somebody who looks and smells like he hasn't had a shower in three weeks and is living in a tent on a street corner? That's what you would consider a presentable employee? That's just one of the many obstacles homeless people find in the way of gainful employment. Besides which, that kind of trauma actually [i]causes[/i] severe behavioral disorders.

@SatanBurger i know everyone’s situation is different but at the end of the day, where there’s a will there is a way.

@LordShadowfire like I wrote to @SatanBurger where there’s a will there’s a way. Many have lost hope in life and most important themselves.

Not everyone situation is the same but we all have the choice to overcome or not.

@Heavenlywarrior Yeah, well, I choose to believe those people are just unequipped to deal with the hardship they've been given, while you choose to believe they are lazy.

@LordShadowfire unequipped eh ? lol ok. Very interesting

@Heavenlywarrior Not everybody has the skills to not only survive on the streets, but pull themselves back off them.

@LordShadowfire right. They have chosen to not adapt learn the skills or be overcome by their situation.

@Heavenlywarrior Wow. So much for that Christian compassion, I guess.

@LordShadowfire one thing I’ve learned from this world if we want something bad enough we have to put in some effort , and the more we want more is required… consistency and patience .

So yeah. That’s life. I was ignorant about those things before

@Heavenlywarrior Okay, well, I've had enough of you blaming homeless people for their situation talk to you later.

@LordShadowfire ok later thanks for the chat

@LordShadowfire Yeah those people, you can really tell who wasn't truly homeless. They were part homeless at best.