Worst Feeling Ever? - Page 4

Cecily · #1 08-06-2018, 05:58 PM

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giving money to pan handlers is surrendering it to the racket of your misguided conscience. you're not helping them. you're simply buying yourself some peace of mind until the next time their random appearance thrusts once more the misery of their condition to the forefront of your mind. the truth is, you care neither enough to extricate them from their miserable state, nor even enough to relieve them of it. you only care that your forced to share in it for a few uncomfortable moments. if you want to help them, get them a job or a heavily conditioned place to stay ^^ giving them money might buy you temporary reprieve from a tyrranical conscience mad as it is demanding, but it only subsidizes their misery.

Gonna try to force myself to get through this block of right wing word porn. Wish me luck.

maskedmelon · #2 08-06-2018, 06:07 PM

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Gonna try to force myself to get through this block of right wing word porn. Wish me luck.

lol ^o^ and you said you aren't reliably funny enough to write comedy (^.~) that post you quoted was a hammer and pokes was right to criticize it because it didn't do a good job of articulating my point. the follow-up does though (i think ^^[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wonkie · #3 08-06-2018, 06:49 PM

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lol ^o^ and you said you aren't reliably funny enough to write comedy (^.~) that post you quoted was a hammer and pokes was right to criticize it because it didn't do a good job of articulating my point. the follow-up does though (i think ^^[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

my melon lore isn't too good, but isn't death your usual suggested solution?[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Cecily · #4 08-06-2018, 05:05 PM

"Years would pass before I understood why I attracted people who took advantage of me, and why I let them get away with it."

I'm a little mad the why didn't get discussed. I probably give away 40 bucks every time I visit a big city.

clevergirl · #5 08-06-2018, 05:16 PM

I have no in game friends either. Not fucking kidding.

clevergirl · #6 08-06-2018, 05:28 PM

If I was a beggar I'd save and attempt to not be a beggar.

Problem is beggars can't save. They also get mugged and robbed. They typically can't get jobs either. May not even have ID or have some serious health problems. Yeah they can be scam artists, even those are just trying to make a living with maybe the only skill they have.

They just are. It's dumb to look down at them.

chadtwoke · #7 08-08-2018, 11:41 AM

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If I was a beggar I'd save and attempt to not be a beggar.

Problem is beggars can't save. They also get mugged and robbed. They typically can't get jobs either. May not even have ID or have some serious health problems. Yeah they can be scam artists, even those are just trying to make a living with maybe the only skill they have.

They just are. It's dumb to look down at them.

Most beggars are the way they are because they're either A.)Lazy and don't want to take responsibility and get a job. B.)Addicts C.) Years of being addicts and having a victim mentality has turned their brain to mush.

Whether it is one of those reasons or all of them combined, to MOST people trying to get money standing on the off-ramp to the interstate I have no sympathy(especially when that certain off-ramp is walking distance away to a neighborhood that is almost all drug dealers). And If i was in the same position, I'd rather someone offer to help me get into a treatment facility rather than just enable me to continue to poison myself.

So, yea. Most beggars, get fucked.

clevergirl · #8 08-06-2018, 05:33 PM

Wonkie mm wasn't being really mean. Want to clean my room?

Also I have it on good authority that maskedmelon is immaculate.

maskedmelon · #9 08-06-2018, 05:50 PM

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Wonkie mm wasn't being really mean. Want to clean my room?

Also I have it on good authority that maskedmelon is immaculate.

ty mae (o^^o) i am not though. i am just another goober in this gooberland lol.

Cecily · #10 08-06-2018, 07:02 PM

Thanks but I was only half kidding. I did manage to get through it. I could sense from a glance it was going to be difficult. The first few lines made me feel extremely uncomfortable and I can say without reservation that your views on this topic literally make my skin crawl. Suffice it to say our opinions on the matter differ.

Your paraphrased argument is that it's my duty to personally save someone if I'm going to bother helping them at all. That's a callous and impractical view of the nature of suffering which is both acute and chronic. I simply don't have the ability, free time, or resources to provide employment or housing for the guy begging for food on the street. I've tried but I've learned that I can't fix someone else's life. What I can do is share a portion of my limited resources to help alleviate some immediate suffering. That's always worthwhile.