Mike Teacher
11-25-2003, 06:48 AM
Sadly, I'm a narrowly focused person who tends to view the World as something that might revolve around my person.
Luckily, my Mother, having been born in the deepest year of the depression and was an RN for half a century, cares about others.
Which is why I ended up at the local food bank yesterday; she has a bunch of boxes of food she wants to give away can i com over blah blah blah...
Well blah blah blah turns into something very different when you see how Busy the place was. I used to do this so often [teaching and the canned goods thing, ya know...] I forgot that:
-there are people, good and true, who Eat Shit, literally, to stand in line for simple food.
-sometimes its an acquaintance you see standing in that line.
-Food is sacred. So sacred that we have reshaped our world, since thousands of years ago, so that we could eat food or Quality and sufficient quantity, as opposed to living off the land. It sounds trite, but the Kitchen is a sacred place in most societies, on one level or another. Ron and Fez also Enjoy a meal; they don't just eat. This I noticed when first listening to them. This is one level.
Anyway, I'm emptying out my pantry; there's some stuff in there that I'm not gonna eat but I'm sure someone else would be enjoying it just fine, and the place is not far away, and you pull up and Boom.
I was at a talk where a person asked an atheist 'What gives purpose and meaning in your life?' and his response was: 'To do useful things.' He went on to talk about acts of altruism, and how we see that altruism, the sacrifice of self in response to a larger need by the group, actually evolved; it's not a learned triat. We are naturally altruistic. So he said, if you feel your life has no meaning, fine. While it has no meaning, go do something worthwhile; because your life just gave someone elses a bit more meaning.
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Luckily, my Mother, having been born in the deepest year of the depression and was an RN for half a century, cares about others.
Which is why I ended up at the local food bank yesterday; she has a bunch of boxes of food she wants to give away can i com over blah blah blah...
Well blah blah blah turns into something very different when you see how Busy the place was. I used to do this so often [teaching and the canned goods thing, ya know...] I forgot that:
-there are people, good and true, who Eat Shit, literally, to stand in line for simple food.
-sometimes its an acquaintance you see standing in that line.
-Food is sacred. So sacred that we have reshaped our world, since thousands of years ago, so that we could eat food or Quality and sufficient quantity, as opposed to living off the land. It sounds trite, but the Kitchen is a sacred place in most societies, on one level or another. Ron and Fez also Enjoy a meal; they don't just eat. This I noticed when first listening to them. This is one level.
Anyway, I'm emptying out my pantry; there's some stuff in there that I'm not gonna eat but I'm sure someone else would be enjoying it just fine, and the place is not far away, and you pull up and Boom.
I was at a talk where a person asked an atheist 'What gives purpose and meaning in your life?' and his response was: 'To do useful things.' He went on to talk about acts of altruism, and how we see that altruism, the sacrifice of self in response to a larger need by the group, actually evolved; it's not a learned triat. We are naturally altruistic. So he said, if you feel your life has no meaning, fine. While it has no meaning, go do something worthwhile; because your life just gave someone elses a bit more meaning.
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