Isaiah 26:3: Homeless Man Finds 100000 Dollars As Part of A Social ...

Basically, the episode of Oprah talking about a homeless man named Ted Rodrigue. As part of an experience of Showtime, is given $ 100,000. The guy who came up with this idea was inspired to create the show as part of a "social experiment". He wanted to know whether, if you gave a homeless man $ 100,000 ... if it would change his life. Obviously he did not have 100,000, so he went to Showtime and this is how it all started.At the end of the episode of Oprah, the creator of the Showtime series "Reprise", which means the trip after finding the SDF 100 000, came to the conclusion that all this money was not enough to change the a person's life. He said something along the lines of "I realized that if you give someone clothes, money, a house, and everything you need, it is still not enough to change their lives." I wanted to scream at the TV, "DUHHHH" At some point in the show, Oprah asked the homeless man, Ted Rodrigue, if he feels he has no social experience. Ted answers his question by saying, "Yes." Let me just say ...No, Ted...you did not fail this social experiment. The man who decided to create the Showtime show, who gave you 100,000 dollars, is the one who failed. This might sound harsh, but I truly believe if that man really was deeply committed to helping Ted, Ted would not be in the same place as he is, or as he says, "worse off" than before he even got the money. I'm not saying that this guy didn't want to help Ted. I'm sure he did. But did he want to help Ted more than he wanted to make a show? Did he invest in Ted more than he invested in the show? Did he want to help Ted more than he wanted his curiosity to be satisfied by this "social experiment?" The answer is obviously, no...or else I wouldn't be typing this. The part that makes me the angriest is that this man, along with many others watching the show, believes his heart was in the right place. After all, they say...did the creator of the show not offer Ted a counselor to help him with managing the money? Or people to help him find a job? Did they not provide countless opportunities that Ted should've taken advantage of? Of course they provided all these things...and maybe if Ted did take advantage of them, he would probably be in a different place. But I highly doubt it. Instead of doing justice, as God says to in the Bible by helping the poor; the creator of "Reversal," I hate to say, did Ted an injustice.


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