{"id":937,"date":"2009-11-27T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/11\/black-friday-cyber-monday-2009-what-would-jesus-buy-heifer-international.html"},"modified":"2009-11-27T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T10:19:20","slug":"black-friday-cyber-monday-2009-what-would-jesus-buy-heifer-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/11\/black-friday-cyber-monday-2009-what-would-jesus-buy-heifer-international.html","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday, Cyber Monday 2009: What Would Jesus Buy? Heifer International?"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"9699\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\" contenteditable=\"false\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heifer.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"black_friday_2009_cyber_monday_heifer.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/black_friday_2009_cyber_monday_heifer.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" height=\"94\" width=\"149\" \/><\/a><\/form>\n<p>posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0861715160\/\"><strong><em>Ethan Nichtern<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(for more about IDP, visit the<a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/\"> Interdependence Project<\/a>&#8216;s main website)<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the day of the year with the strangest name: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.showbizgossips.com\/apple-unleashes-one-day-shopping-event-for-black-friday-2009\/2765\">Black Friday 2009<\/a>. Next comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gather.com\/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977919569&amp;grpId=3659174697244816&amp;nav=Groupspace\">Cyber Monday 2009<\/a>. The name feels like an apocalypse, or a shop-ocalypse, as consumption activist and star of one of my favorite holiday movies <a href=\"http:\/\/wwjbmovie.com\/\">What Would Jesus Buy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/revbilly.com\/\">Reverend Billy<\/a> would say. Have you been poking around for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crazy_Eddie\">Black Friday online deals<\/a>? I haven&#8217;t heard reports of anyone being <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2008448574_shop290.html\">trampled to death<\/a> today, like last year, but the holiday season is still very young, and Wal-mart has a new look and marketing strategy, so you never know. <\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object><!--more-->So seriously, folks, how do you think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shambhala.org\/\">Buddha<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/business\/consuminginterests\/blog\/2009\/11\/what_would_jesus_buy_free_scre.html\">Jesus<\/a> would handle the shopping season if they were alive in 2009? Many friends seems to be using Heifer International to buy a new animal for a 3rd world farmer in need. This seems pretty awesome, and I am going to do it too. By the way friends, the animal I might buy in your name is not the animal you remind me of, but the one I could afford. Besides, beautiful animals tend to produce less milk and meat for farmers. Just an fyi.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t think any enlightened being would want us to all get more cheap plastic stuff from China that our loved ones will throw out in a few months. At the Interdependence Project, maybe next year we will institute a Secret Santa game full of bartered services and homemade gifts. Until then, shop responsibly, and don&#8217;t bring too much environmentally destructive stuff into the world. Now for some leftover stuffing. Maybe we should watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/storyofstuff.com\/\">Story of Stuff<\/a> before we start shopping. And then meditate on the meaning of generosity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gLBE5QAYXp8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gLBE5QAYXp8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>posted by Ethan Nichtern (for more about IDP, visit the Interdependence Project&#8216;s main website) Welcome to the day of the year with the strangest name: Black Friday 2009. Next comes Cyber Monday 2009. 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