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10/02/2007 17:38:06
Dragan Nedeljkovich (En ligne)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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10/02/2007 13:06:46
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>>No. I don't. I'm here to learn and share what I know. But not as a charity - it's out of the solidarity between equals, not a handout from the haves to the have nots.
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>>If you accuse me of charity, you better build a case to prove that I did that.
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>in other words this is the full use of charity.. that isn't money involved with our operations.. So, the engine is mutual help.. I'm not sure if this is a language difference (portuguese with english) or a case of don't acception of the facts..
>
>Please anyone, specialty any US or England natural born, could help me on the clarification of facts..

It may be just my dislike for charity as means of perpetuation of a civilization divided into haves and have nots. The sort of charity which assumes that I first get my table full, and then see that it may be perceived as me having too much, and then I go look for the poor and unfortunate and basically help them stay poor for some extended time. That's what I see labeled as charity here (with a few exceptions of programs who do help these people get on their feet, get educated and move upwards). Actually, I find the term "charity industry" quite shameful.

I prefer to do things out of solidarity - the image of bucket brigade fits better, neighbors helping each other as equals.

>>[update]
>>Sorry, I forgot you don't do proving.
>
>What kind of stuff did I not prove to you? Try to be specific..

I somehow don't see how proving (i.e. use of logic) can go together with faith (i.e. believing despite impossibility of proof, or despite of proof of the contrary) can go together. So I don't expect you to prove anything. Once we get into proving, we start employing logic, and then I ask the same question again, the one you refused to answer directly, and we go next circle.

In this particular case, I felt that saying that my writing here is somehow charity, brings the unwelcome image of dropping crumbs from my table to the hungry crawling beneath. I really never felt like that. I've been helped, and I've helped, mostly not to the same people. I don't see them as lower or higher in any way - we're colleagues on the same job. We may have different experiences, but hey - I was in their skin few years before, and I remember.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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