Great thread. I think helping each other out is one of the major lessons humanity needs to learn... otherwise we're in trouble. I think it's good to
banter with people and make them feel good, but IMO it may be better to do some sort of practical act, like paying for tolls, food for the
homeless...
- I made up some business cards with:
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Real news: www.infowars.com -
Real talk: www.abovetopsecret.com -
Real health: www.welikeitraw.com -
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...written on them. So now you can leave them around the place and free souls from the combine at 10 cents per soul. A card like that, with a cool
design on it, dropped mysteriously by a stranger, might not just make someone's day, it could make someone's
life
Maybe 80 out of a hundred people will throw them away, but what about the other 20?
We should brainstorm ways to make people have a good day for little or no money.
This thread is good:
Twelve Sandwiches Daily To a Better Future
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I have no desire to be friends with the guy who serves me coffee or even checks out my liver at the hospital...all I ask for is a reasonable level of
competence and polite silence, ************** I think I'd go insane if I had to banter with everyone I ran across on a daily basis.
We all have days when we want to mind our own business. I feel like that from time to time. Headphones are a decent sign to people to keep/distance. I
sometimes put mine on with no music just so I can do my own thing. Einstein said:
"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact
with other human beings and human communities.
Maybe that's you, maybe you're depressed. I dont know, it's not my call.
Some days I find banter draining and irritating, sometimes it's uplifting and useful. I live in HK right now, Cantonese people gabble at each other
all the time. On the other hand, commerce can be very brusque and impersonal. My general rule is I let people approach me.
And it's not about being friends with someone. It's just making the time go faster and increasing the joy in the universe by a couple of kilos. You
don't get a taxi drivers email and invite him to your wedding after a 15 minute conversation, you just have a cool conversation and go on yr way,
both a little enriched.
STO makes you feel alive and brings powerful results...
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