Volunteers and Donations[Who here isn't a selfish bastard?]

In the last while I've done a lot of volunteering for some perplexing reason because deep down I know I'm a self-loathing asshole. I dedicated a lot of my time and it feels really good. Not like substance abuse induced good or wild romps through the seedier areas of Virginia, but a holier-than-thou good that my ticket to Heaven has gone from denied to pending status. Does anyone else here not sit on the computer all day and help the less fortunate?

Recently served food for the homeless, setup a shelter for battered women, help and cheered on those at the local special olympics, cleaned the grimy trashy beaches of virginia, donated blood, signed up for the bone marrow registry, and did yardwork for the elderly. I know I'm bragging, but my real intention is to see if anyone else here does any other unself-serving duty that could probably inspire me or others to pick it up. Some other opporutunity.

not so much now, but i did travel volunteering, and helped out at a food kitchen downtown up until about a year ago. From time to time, if I'm free, I'll offer help to a stranger doing yardwork or something and then never speak to them again. Not so much in the past year, I guess, but especially when I was younger I would do this.

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Does anyone else here not sit on the computer all day and help the less fortunate?

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No, but I used to tell myself I was planning on doing it, until I realized that it wasn't going to happen.

I was driving home yesterday, and as I came down the road I saw a Mexican man with a Clydesdale. The Clydesdale was lying on it's side and couldn't get up. Since this is a potentially fatal position for a horse to find itself in, the man was trying his hardest to pull the horse up to it's feet. I stopped my truck, went over and unhooked the horse's saddle. The saddle fell free, and the horse was able to come to it's feet without the added weight and bondage of the saddle.
I'd seen similar situations with my own horses so I knew what to do, although I figured that removing the saddle from a downed animal was common sense. I imagine if I wouldn't have come by the guy would have let the horse twist and roll until it's intestines got impacted.

Ironically enough, if I would have come across a Mexican man rolling in the ditch, unable to get up. I wouldn't have stopped.

so why didn't you shoot the mexican man and take his horse you racist bastard?

Honestly, that is just not a very good plan for murder, Scyld.

murder?! are you actually ascribing personhood to non-whites, especially the filthy mexicans? they aren't humans, so at most it would be animal abuse, but i mean...

Me being a "racist bastard" doesn't necessarily mean not "ascribing person hood to nonwhites".
The same way you being a flaming homosexual doesn't necessarily mean you suck dick in toilet stalls.

i'm actually not that flaming, and tbh it's the gays that AREN'T out who suck dick in toilet stalls.

• Volunteered in a hospital for 2 years
• Organized two donation drives for homeless children in San Diego, CA which raised over 5,000 items
• I'm the project manager for Engineers Without Borders team that's in the process of building a Health Clinic outside of Mangua, Nicaragua
• I've volunteered time with the Elderly in assisted living facilities
• I donated California State tax return to cancer research
• I've donated blood (who doesn't? Although I can't recently due to my out-of-country trip)
• I helped a woman in a wheelchair with limited mobility of her arms eat in the eating plaza of our school after striking up un-related conversation with her.

the bullets really made that list shine

you're hired

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Originally Posted by coqauvin

the bullets really made that list shine

you're hired

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If only that would get me an actual engineering job.

saw thread title and lolled

dont give fuck

am drunk

night x

I did Relay for Life for 5 years. I raised a buttload of cash for cancer research. If that counts.

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Originally Posted by gina

I did Relay for Life for 5 years. I raised a buttload of cash for cancer research. If that counts.

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well i mean

we still have cancer

so no doesn't count you failed all the people with cancer g/j

one time i helped a church gardener do his yardwork for like 2 hours for no money and i'm not even christian

mind you this was in elementary school so i still believed in silly concepts like altruism

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Originally Posted by coqauvin

one time i helped a church gardener do his yardwork for like 2 hours for no money and i'm not even christian

mind you this was in elementary school so i still believed in silly concepts like altruism

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lies

everyone's christian in elementary school

remember my religion thread?

i am not a wasp

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Originally Posted by coqauvin

remember my religion thread?

i am not a wasp

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well what were you a pagan yeah right

so the whites didn't do a good enough job of beating the pagan out of you natives huh

also baha'i

my religious upbringing was... unique.

also, clearly not

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Originally Posted by coqauvin

also baha'i

my religious upbringing was... unique.

also, clearly not

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i see i see

well hey i found this awesome jesus-hating cartoon that i think is right up your alley. it's super keen and super boss and all the teenagers are screaming like it's a rock and roll band

here it is

i don't understand where you're going with this

ok i lied

coqauvin, have you ever thought about... eternity? and what will happen to your immortal soul? do you think the god of pagan baha'i is gonna save you?

there's a prayer at the end of that pamphlet that will bring jesus into your life as your lord and savior. you can be saved RIGHT NOW if you seize the opportunity.

oh

I volunteered @ an animal shelter every other wkend for 2 yrs when I lived in florida.

2 weeks ago my job organized an outing where we volunteered in downtown Dallas to fix up elderly/disabled/dis advantaged people's houses etc.

I also didn't call the cops when this stupid bitch rear-ended my car a few weeks ago. Minor damage. No big deal.

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Originally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy

• Volunteered in a hospital for 2 years
• Organized two donation drives for homeless children in San Diego, CA which raised over 5,000 items
• I'm the project manager for Engineers Without Borders team that's in the process of building a Health Clinic outside of Mangua, Nicaragua
• I've volunteered time with the Elderly in assisted living facilities
• I donated California State tax return to cancer research
• I've donated blood (who doesn't? Although I can't recently due to my out-of-country trip)
• I helped a woman in a wheelchair with limited mobility of her arms eat in the eating plaza of our school after striking up un-related conversation with her.

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Are you a bigshot moneymaking engineer? That sounds super big.

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Originally Posted by gina

I did Relay for Life for 5 years. I raised a buttload of cash for cancer research. If that counts.

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Thats something I think I could do and sounds very fun.

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Originally Posted by Mad Pino Rage

Are you a bigshot moneymaking engineer? That sounds super big.

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Still a student. But it is the most intense project my group has ever undertaken.

I do WoW instead of helping people.

I help made NPC's rescue the world of Azeroth rather than helping real human beings who suffer.

People like me suck.

I volunteer 30-40 hours per semester with various philanthropy efforts both at school and in the Atlanta business community. Over the summer when I lived at home I coached kids soccer bc I was so bored and wanted an excuse to run around and kick a ball--next summer I want to coach YMCA flag football for the 8 year olds and it's gonna be like that episode of Always Sunny except I'm gonna win.

You just don't hear me talk about this stuff because I have a reputation to uphold.

Also fun fact, most people in corporate america would prefer a day of mandatory paid volunteer work day (Habitat, soup kitchen, food bank, etc) to paid time off.

once i held a door open for someone

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Originally Posted by Atmosfear

I volunteer 30-40 hours per semester with various philanthropy efforts both at school and in the Atlanta business community. Over the summer when I lived at home I coached kids soccer bc I was so bored and wanted an excuse to run around and kick a ball--next summer I want to coach YMCA flag football for the 8 year olds and it's gonna be like that episode of Always Sunny except I'm gonna win.

You just don't hear me talk about this stuff because I have a reputation to uphold.

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That chubby asian kid was ruthless.

i can't believe you left out the sweet gatorade showers you are bound to take

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Originally Posted by coqauvin

i can't believe you left out the sweet golden showers you are bound to take

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Do I look like I want to ruin my suit and tie that I will be wearing as I storm up and down the sidelines, motivating my players to die for the extra inch for the first down, yelling at refs for their bullshit calls, etc etc.

Also post-game press conferences.

I have a phobia of touching public doors so I let them slam on the people behind me.

On Sunday I did a walk for kidneys at the philadelphia zoo.

congratulating boys on career ending injuries "for showing real heart out there"

it as if you were all frozen in time..whoa

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Originally Posted by GreyOne

it as if you were all frozen in time..whoa

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teh internets change faster than the pathetic troglodytes that inhabit it

ginas make the worlds go round

My housemates and I got stoned a month or so ago and decided to sponser an African child. So we send £18 a month (roughly $800 USD). Although we might not have had the best intentions I've been thinking about the whole thing a lot recently and I'm really pleased we did. Next summer I'lll probably do some volunteer work in the Criminal Justice System but that probably wont be so much charity as something to put on my CV.

Ive done community service a few tomes before. Its usually because I get a speeding ticket and thats how I get out of it though.

I have helped with registration on the pe-wee football league a few times though.