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Would You Take It?
Okay, I’ve asked this before but there are lots of new peeps here, so here goes. If someone offered to give you fifty million dollars but you could not leave your property for the rest of your life once you had it, would you take it? You can choose where the property is, but once you choose it you can never leave.
Why or why not?
Never… I love to travel too much and there so many who have yet to hear about Messiah! That’s not worth being confined to any property for any amount of money!
No way – how could I enjoy the money if I could never leave. There are too many places I want to see…
Never would take it. Jesus spoke more about money than almost any other topic. Dangers would abound.
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I might would’ve a few years ago, but not anymore – too many experiences would be missed
I think most people would have a hard time answering that question honestly to themselves. Initially we would say, yep, no problem. I know my wife would take it, no hesitation, even without the money. She is not a big people person… I would probably kill myself within 2 years with no interaction.
I don’t think I could do it. It’s no fun having lots of money if you can’t live life! Travel, experiences, relationships, and tons more would have to be sacrificed. No siree, not me!
Hell No. I could not get my paxil.
Will there be internet?
No way. Love to travel too much.
No way…Could not give me enough money to not see my family and friends.
No amount of money could get me to do that.
Out of curiosity, could this be a movable piece of property such as a ginormous boat or jumbo jet sort of thing?
My daughter (age 17) says “I’d chose Mother Earth as my property”
I’m with her – not that any one person can own Earth, but this is hypothetical anyway.
no way, you can’t put a price on freedom.
I don’t think I would exchange my freedom for wealth. I like to be with the common people too much, to walk along city streets and feel human under the sun. To hear forks slide across plates at my favorite restaurant. I’d lose my humanity for sure in the midst of that.
Keep in mind these things.
With fifty million dollars your family, including wife/husband, children, parents, ect could travel as much as they ever wanted to. You could also afford to bring anyone to you.
Also, with fifty million dollars think of the different charities/organizations that could benefit from your “sacrifice” of staying on your property and living a content life.
Yes, Jeff, you could afford internet.
Before I read the last comment of Brody’s, I too was thinking that if I were to limit myself by staying in this one place (Hawaii? New Zealand?) then I could really support lots of missionaries and ministries w/ $50million.
If I can choose where my place is, I might do it. Are you wanting me to be the guinea pig, Brody?
now if you are not up to date with Lost then you should probably not read this until you have watched every episode…
Can this property be like the Island…in which it can do awesome things (Like in the finale) oh and can the dream team of Jacks be there..Jack Shepherd and Jack Bauer?
no, not a chance… yea i could have an awesome house in a sweet location, and id have lots of cash, but im way too social a person to sacrifice all that for some money…
go Natalie – succinct and powerful way to put it! sounds like something that Braveheart would say
It would be a HARD decision, but if it would benefit my family and let us do the things we desire, Id do it. If it meant my kids could go to college and on missions trips without worrying where the money wold come from, Id do it. If it meant I could pay off someone’s debts, Id do it. If it meant I could FINALLY have the dream job of sitting at home reading and blogging all day, Id do it.
Honestly, I think my life would be much more simple, and in turn, I’d be closer to God.
Less distractions.
mm, no way. Too many places, people, things to see!!!
The big question for me is how big is the property… if it were a few thousand acres in the Alps, ummm I wouldnt leave for FREE! But even then, I would probably start feeling cagey within a few years. SO I guess the bigger question is, will I sell my sanity for 50 million? Nahhh… I dig sanity. I spent too many years without, and Jesus brought it back… I’d say that is priceless.
So could I choose an ownership in the Disney Vacation Club? And if so would my “Property” include all of Disney Property since that is what they call all of the resort? If you answer is yes – the yes I would.
hmm, maybe. do i get the property AND the fifty million? cuz then i could just fly/boat people in to see me. and i mean, the property could be pretty big. but really, i do love to travel so i’d probably not like it so much. interesting question. what about you brody?
I think I’d take it.
My family would be set for life and the lives of my kids kids. I would find an amazing island or something that has rivers and beaches, and fly or boat people in. Does Kauai count as a “property”? If Kauai was my property I would in a heart beat.
Yes, with this in mind.
It’s a small price to pay that I only get so much freedom, but the legacy that I can create with 50mil will last far beyond my life span.
Still, I would honestly have to say, if I had a wife it would probably be up to her.
Dude. I hardly leave my house now and I’m not getting anything for it. Sign me up.
Also, for $50 million dollars couldn’t you just buy the whole world and have all of it be your property?
Love , Jenny (who has no idea how much stuff costs.)
I’m with Jenny. Use your new found riches to buy Montana.
no way would i take it
Given Brody’s point that we could bring who and whatever to us, I would. I’ve always thought of how much good I could do if I became that wealthy, and I’d be okay with staying “home” if I could help others and afford to give those I love some luxuries.
Does a yacht that I could take around the world count? If that works yes, if not no.
I probably would take it. if i could buy something really BIG so that i wouldn’t get bored in one place. no one said i couldn’t put lots of houses on the property and build my own “city”; plus like others said, that kind of money could do a lot of work to further God’s Kingdom;
after all, if i were to ever get $50 million, He would be the one giving it to me anyway, so I would have to give it back to God 1st before I did anything else and who knows what kind of blessings would follow then.
No, money is not worth it to me. People are more important. I decided a long time ago to never make any life decisions based just on money.
The music scene too dude. I love what I do too much to give it up for money.
Also, I want to serve others. I think that would be hard to do in those circumstances.
Gehenna no! Life is about relationships – community and communion with God. It might even be said that part of life is connection with creation, too…
For me, my aversion to the proposition is not not a matter of having limitation. True freedom can only come from imposing disciplined limitations (i.e. freedom to be truly vulnerable in marital sex can only come through limitations like monogamy). I do think Americans can learn a lot about putting limitations on our so-called freedom to drive wherever we want or bounce from friendship to friendship, church to church. But this limitation, being stuck on my own property, would imply that I’m stuck in a me-centric world and Jesus said that I will only find my life if I lose it for something else, namely the Gospel of restoring relational connected-order to all things. The funny thing about the question is that the American way of life isn’t too far off from that scenario. It’s totally based around the individual. In contrast to all other times and places, this is really a strange phenomenon. No wonder our happiness index has been falling the more individualized and richer we get (not to mention anxiety and depression being at epidemic levels).
So I wouldn’t do it, not merely because I wouldn’t get to travel or fulfill an individual dream, but because I would be living completely opposed to the Gospel just as much as I would and do when I have no limitations or faithful commitments at all because there would be no room for them. For me, it’s not about having no limitation, it’s how big is that limitation. I think there is a sweet spot. For instance, my friends and I actually spend most of our time within two square miles – live, work, play, everything. It’s interesting how much more freedom there is to walk down the street and feel safe or be known when you have consistent, mutual relationships centered in one human-scale geographic community.
OK, well that’s my ridiculously heady response. Apparently, I’ve thought about this kind of thing before.
Oh, Luke and Jenny are on to something, though! Hehe. Great conversation-starter!
I think that I would go crazy knowing that I couldn’t leave. Kind of like that verse “the strength of sin is the law”. But, I could deal with the 50 million and live somewhere awesome, plus, i’d just have friends and family over all the time. I could pay for people to come visit and they’d want to because I would have my own private beach resort somewhere.