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RE: Rep problem
October 11, 2016 at 1:29 pm
(October 11, 2016 at 1:27 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(October 11, 2016 at 8:41 am)LastPoet Wrote: Beer, the cause and sollution to all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life - George Bernard Shaw

I bet Beccs would love that quote.

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RE: Rep problem
October 11, 2016 at 1:30 pm
She'll be back....

She's currently playing around in Sudan, I think.

Hoping she's well.
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RE: Rep problem
October 11, 2016 at 1:33 pm
(October 11, 2016 at 1:30 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: She'll be back....

She's currently playing around in Sudan, I think.

Hoping she's well.

One of the select few persons actually doing something for real.
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RE: Rep problem
October 11, 2016 at 1:34 pm
I'm doing real things.

Studying to take my State Boards...

That's pretty real to me. Especially since school is costing me nearly twenty grand.
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October 11, 2016 at 1:37 pm
I was rather thinking on the lines of moving ones ass into dangerous regions to help other people to survive.

We're all doing something. But that doesn't mean we're risking life and limb for people we don't even know. And that most certainly includes my sorry ass, which I haven't moved to help other for the last two decades.
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RE: Rep problem
October 11, 2016 at 1:38 pm
Yeah, I don't have the bucks to fly to South Sudan. We all gotta participate in the world the best way we know how.
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October 11, 2016 at 1:47 pm
I don't have the talents to help people in Sudan.

We all do what we can do. Not risking life and limb doesn't mean you're not making a huge difference somewhere.
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RE: Rep problem
October 11, 2016 at 1:49 pm
It would be better to stop making those kinds of comparisons. Some people are smart enough or wealthy enough to contribute meaningfully in various ways to places abroad that are dangerous. Some people are smart enough and kind enough or have the talents that help people in less dangerous, but equally harrowing places - like with our veterans or homeless shelters or rape crisis centers and the like.

Those people shouldn't be denigrated just because someone went to Sudan instead and vice-versa.
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RE: Rep problem
October 11, 2016 at 1:56 pm
(October 11, 2016 at 1:49 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Those people shouldn't be denigrated just because someone went to Sudan instead and vice-versa.

Right after the revolution of '89 I went to Romania with a Red Cross support team, while the situation was far from stable. Didn't cost me a dime. Only the opportunity to be away for a week.

There's a difference between denigrating most people, including me, and admiring others for actually going the extra mile. Beccs or Valkyrie how she calls herself now, is obviously well off in the job she's doing. The majority of people in her situation can't be bothered to help out in an Ebola epidemic or other infested regions on the butt end of the world.

So, I admire her for that and give her my thanks. That however doesn't mean I look down on other, since I am part of the others.
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October 11, 2016 at 1:58 pm
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