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One problem is once you start giving, to assuage your conscience a bit, and you've thus accepted the principle - where do you stop? Like you Geezer, there are things I don't want to know - like how it would be to live on the street myself. Of course I believe in solidarity - but there are limits :-) I prefer solidarity with those trying to change the system, even if it means higher taxes (within - um - reason, of course !-)) so that less people have any need to sleep on the street.
But I agree that random acts of kindness are still a good thing. US TV news had a story the other day about how someone had bought coffee for the person behind them at a drive-in fast food place - and it started a chain reaction that went on all day. It seemed to make the people involved happy. The kick in the tail - this is the US :-) - was that the guy who started it was responding to the guy behind him sounding his horn. It may have been lucky - given it's the US - that no guns were involved. It might also have been lucky for the guy behind, because the guy who bought the coffee was a Tai-chi master ! :-) The master says: "Man who buys coffee for a pain-in-the-arse may start a nation-wide trend" :-) Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice. Blog - Nice Experience
Clochard? I gotta go now.
Sites that are heavily oriented toward the mechanistic world of the "expert" seem uniquely prone to lose the "heart" of the whole thing, also.
-Why do we bother working toward social or economic policy that works?
-What does it mean to "work", anyway?
The sad little toy on the ground beside the sleeping bag is a perfect indicator--for those who want to see. My old friend and sociology prof, Dr. Phil Bosserman, saw the picture, and went into the bathroom and cried.
For those who can see that picture and not be touched, there is a great gift of self-understanding lying there- right next to the toy.
See it, guys?
I didn't think so. Useful talking follows experience, the more experience the better. Talking that precedes experience is known as bullshit.
Specially the food stuff random giver..
but I must be truthful.. i hardly ever give money.. almost never.. if I ahve food.. I inmediately give it... otherwise.. very difficult..
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
