Putting something back into your community
Well, I've been a charity donor in one way or another for most of my life, but a couple of weeks ago I decided I would put something more than just a few dollars in the cookie jar each week.
I decided to give some of my own time and energy.
So I'll be working as a volunteer for Oxfam. They are an International group focussed on education, & health issues in 3rd world countries.
The way I figure it, I get a chance to step away from my workaday world, recharge my batteries and put something back into the community.
It should be fun.
The only little problem might be spending time away from the computer...will I cope ?
I decided to give some of my own time and energy.
So I'll be working as a volunteer for Oxfam. They are an International group focussed on education, & health issues in 3rd world countries.
The way I figure it, I get a chance to step away from my workaday world, recharge my batteries and put something back into the community.
It should be fun.
The only little problem might be spending time away from the computer...will I cope ?
Comments
It is not for recognition, not for you, but for the sake of love and the Glory of God to be known in amazing ways.
Fellowship
Originally posted by FellowshipChurch iBook
When you are able to help others God is very close.
It is not for recognition, not for you, but for the sake of love and the Glory of God to be known in amazing ways.
Fellowship
Your spot on there Fellows. ( I blush ) I am called to do it..not so much for myself but as a way of bringing some loving service into the world.
Thankyou.
Originally posted by billybobsky
sorry to be cynical but do it for whatever reason floats your boat... if you think it will help satan and the seven elves triumph on earth, then volunteer for satan's sake. if you think it will make you look good to a member of the opposite sex, then volunteer for sex's sake.
There you go ladies and gentlement, a demonstration of both selfishness and stupidity.
Thank you billybob for proving evolutionary theory can't be true. For you obviously survive without any traits of fitness whatsoever.
Nick
this is the subject of a great deal of intellectual discussion. do we really need a reason to do good? my answer is no. i was just being satirical.
eh, some people just don't read between the lines.
now who is stupid?
Edit: To add just a bit more content to my otherwise contentless response. Selfishness is something done out of a desire to help purely oneself -- people helped by ones selfish actions are no matter. It is a question of intention. In no way is volunteering to help people to benefit yourself in someway selfish. It cannot be because at somepoint a realization must be made that that individual is helping people intentionally.
Originally posted by trumptman
There you go ladies and gentlement, a demonstration of both selfishness and stupidity.
Thank you billybob for proving evolutionary theory can't be true. For you obviously survive without any traits of fitness whatsoever.
Nick
I think, to be fair to the guy, his point is actually that if you're going to volunteer for anything that's so good in itself that your motivations aren't necessarily that important.
But I might be being optimistic.
There you go ladies and gentlement, a demonstration of both selfishness and stupidity.
I wonder if we can get a script going that places this line after all of your poor, wounded father threads.
who says satire is dead?
I would only argue that giving or helping is something that is "not about you" rather all about love.
Being in the right place at the right time doing the right thing with the right attitude is what makes a difference.
If you help or give to others for the wrong reason or with the wrong attitude you are not being honest to what giving love truly is.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
-Anne Frank
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
-John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Fellowship
Originally posted by billybobsky
huh? how is that purely selfish?
this is the subject of a great deal of intellectual discussion. do we really need a reason to do good? my answer is no. i was just being satirical.
Yeah, I'm one of those who tends to also believe that all altruism is ultimately selfish at some level, but that's OK, that's just how we are. Better to be selfish and do something good than be selfish and do something bad.
If Bill Gates was truly altruistic in giving all that money, he would do it anonymously or insist that he not be identified as the giver. If volunteers were truly altruistic, they wouldn't put it on their resumes when they apply for jobs. Are religious people helping out of altruism or out of a desire for the ultimate selfish reward - an eternal afterlife? (Or maybe to avoid the ultimate punishment.)
Etc. You can't ever, ever come up with an example of altruism that must necessarily be completely self-less.
Originally posted by billybobsky
huh? how is that purely selfish?
this is the subject of a great deal of intellectual discussion. do we really need a reason to do good? my answer is no. i was just being satirical.
eh, some people just don't read between the lines.
now who is stupid?
Edit: To add just a bit more content to my otherwise contentless response. Selfishness is something done out of a desire to help purely oneself -- people helped by ones selfish actions are no matter. It is a question of intention. In no way is volunteering to help people to benefit yourself in someway selfish. It cannot be because at somepoint a realization must be made that that individual is helping people intentionally.
It's selfish because you cannot even give someone the pleasure of attempting some good without ramming your beliefs down their throat as the the nature of their intentions.
I assure you that is what lurks between the lines.
Nick
I think it has to do with the fact that some of these organizations just turn into monsters. Kind of like how some large corporations lose sight of what got them to the top. Charities are just like for-profit organizations, they just have to represent something "good" and they get tax breaks. I will volunteer for small organizations from now on. They are appreciative of help in any form.
Originally posted by trumptman
It's selfish because you cannot even give someone the pleasure of attempting some good without ramming your beliefs down their throat as the the nature of their intentions.
I assure you that is what lurks between the lines.
Nick
what beliefs are those?
you never learn.
no kind act goes unpunished!!