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Well, I saved someone's life. Long involved story, but she was a bipolar suicidal ex-girlfriend. Should have seen all of that at the outset, but what the heck. It took a lot of effort over a lot of time, and none of it was fun. She's okay now. We still talk.
Change my workout to run with my wife when she has to run alone at night.
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Well, I saved someone's life. Long involved story, but she was a bipolar suicidal ex-girlfriend. Should have seen all of that at the outset, but what the heck. It took a lot of effort over a lot of time, and none of it was fun. She's okay now. We still talk.
Mine's in the same area as this, bipolar ex-girlfriend. Semi-suicidal but mostly problems between her and her parents that I helped solve and allowed things to get better between them.
'Mine's in the same area as this, bipolar ex-girlfriend. Semi-suicidal but mostly problems between her and her parents that I helped solve and allowed things to get better between them.'
Me too turns out she was seing 2 other guys at the same time!
Served as a bone marrow donor for a sick child.
I volunteer for a hospice agency, as well.
I had a suicidal, bipolar ex-girlfriend that cut her wrists for attention and we eventually worked through it and she is fine now. She dumped me for a more successful guy.
Eating out.
I'm a teacher & a running coach.
But, I would say the everyday things all add up. Hold the door open for someone. Say "thank you." Hand your money to the clerk when you make a purchase. At a four way stop, allow someone to go ahead of you. Give money to a local charity. Be nice.
If you're a religious person (which I'm not), "Do unto others...yada, yada, yada."
I let a teammate beat me in a race.
Sappy wrote:
But, I would say the everyday things all add up. ...
At a four way stop, allow someone to go ahead of you.
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Actually, there are rules of the road that govern whose turn it is to go.
Waiting to let someone else go ahead of you often will slow things down as other folks know it's not their turn, so you get to play the wait and stare game making it take longer for everyone
You want to keep things moving quickly simply go when it is your turn.
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Sappy wrote:But, I would say the everyday things all add up. ...
At a four way stop, allow someone to go ahead of you.
...
Actually, there are rules of the road that govern whose turn it is to go.
Waiting to let someone else go ahead of you often will slow things down as other folks know it's not their turn, so you get to play the wait and stare game making it take longer for everyone
You want to keep things moving quickly simply go when it is your turn.
my exact thoughts. you are actually hurting the overall flow of traffic. oddly, this reminds me of welfare.
well, crap, seems i get to follow the nut joke.
was a sperm donor for a lesbian couple (friends of mine), then relinquished all parental rights because i feel two parents are plenty. set up an anonymous college fund, and am content with the title "uncle."
yeah, this is gonna bite me in the ass (esp when my parents find out they're grandparents), but at least they're happy.
Philosophically, if it's truly unselfish, would we really recognize it as such?
Yeah, we would
So you gave your child to a couple of lesbians and you are proud of that ?
Well, I think we could know what was unselfish. But, with that said . . .
The problem with "unselfishness" today is that, in reality, how it is thought of isn't by definition correct anymore. We almost 100% of the time say that anything done for someone else's benefit is unselfish, but that by itself means nothing. People often, overwhelmingly often, do things for others that they hope will benefit themselves, including just the simple thing of appearing a nice person to others, but many times in hopes of making us feel better about ourselves. It's still selfish. If all our truly unselfish acts from birth to death were counted up we'd be sorely embarrassed, I'm afraid.
But how is this different from the past? or are you talking in terms of another life time? since you said the "problem with "unselfishness" today is...
To me, being "unselfishness" benefits or balances the selfishness in us, right? In other words by doing these acts of kindness or other actions that make us feel good about ourselves and others may help the "selfish" in us. Better yet, if we let the unselfishness acts go unspoken and carry on as our daily life then I see where it becomes "philosophical" just like Ghost of Ashenfelter mentioned.
Okay, it's too early in the morning be talking this deep stuff.
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So you gave your child to a couple of lesbians and you are proud of that ?
ok, apparently the word "reta***d" is getting posts deleted. stupid, but whatever.
tell me then, how is that not unselfish? two friends couldn't have a baby. they asked me to help. it would've been nice to donate at the home office, so to speak, but instead she got the turkey baster.
If it was unselfish you wouldn't be bragging about it on here you twits.