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About donations, recently Twitter blow up with the story of Minister who lives in 35,000 square 25-rooms mansion, and asked for $54,000,000 donations for his fo
by joering2 8y ago
About donations, recently Twitter blow up with the story of Minister who lives in 35,000 square 25-rooms mansion, and asked for $54,000,000 donations for his fourth Jet [1]. Reasoning was that public planes are "tubes filled in with demons" that in the post "bothered [him] with their prayers". He also wrongly claimed that he needs new jet so he flies without stopping anywhere to refuel as the gas prices are high... altho everyone flying private jets know jet fuel is cheaper almost everywhere outside of US.
His "apology" video is worth watching [2] ... his office is literally dripping with gold; the Eggs on his desk are $4,000 per piece. Given recent price of pound of rice, one of those eggs will get you 12,000 pounds (!!!) of raw rice. It takes approx 0.8 pound of rice to feed one person per day. 12,000 / 0.8 gives you 15,000 days worth of rice for one person, or 41 years. One Egg! [2]
Anyways the point of my story is that if in first world country like USA you can find people gullible enough to buy stories like this one and keep on living in literally liquid luxury for 40 years (like that minister does), then it doesn't surprised me someone quit job, begs people for donation and actually makes a solid living.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/30/us/jesse-duplantis-plane-falcon-7x-prosperity-gospel-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/30/us/jesse-duplantis-plane-falc...
[2] http://www.jdm.org/xw-partnerupdate.aspx?source=TWITTER http://www.jdm.org/xw-partnerupdate.aspx?source=TWITTER
PS. Oh and while you on your donations spree, you don't have to be transparent; here Jesse Jets beacon is off; not only he doesn't fly with peasants like you and me, he doesn't want you to know where he is "burning the Jet for Lord Jesus": https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N770JD https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N770JD
- egeozcan 8y agoIf he sells a luxury item to feed people, another person has to buy it. If everyone would rather sell such an item to feed people, its price would drop to 0.
- antiquitie 8y agoThere's no "story" here. The guy has written a real piece of software. You can download it and try it yourself. If you like his work (many of us do) you can tip him a small donation, barely even beer money, to show your appreciation. It's kind of silly to act like this is some sort of scam.