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Сообщение от Veronic

But all the same in connection with this matter. How to combine glamorous expensive things (like the hand of the patriarch), with spirituality and morality? Who thinks that? There are double standards?

Here is what the patriarch himself:
If the whole society will take the path of unbridled consumption, then our earth will not survive. It has been proved that if the average level of consumption all over the world will be what it is now in the United States, the remaining resources are sufficient for 40-45 years.

... rampant consumer instinct, are learning today, a growing number of people actually deprives them of the usual joy of acquiring some things. There is an anomalous situation where a man succumbing to advertising, fashion, began to chase the latest models of mobile phones and cars.
The crisis may, in this sense to teach people self-restraint, to teach diligently to treat their financial capabilities. But most importantly - it teaches Christian asceticism, the ability to manage their instincts and passions.
I once asked a very rich man: "And you feel the pleasure of the new things?" He smiled: "Only when signing a check." Rampant consumption removes the joy of possession of a new thing. The man, sick of this passion, now other ways to meet, for example, in the list of Forbes magazine. I understand that everyone has his own toys, but some of them are dangerous. God has not given us the resources to all live so. A huge disparities in consumption - sin. (c)
Something that I highlighted.