Buffy ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
the elevator told me
I worked in a building that had those little TV screens in the elevators. Amazing how everyone immediately went from staring at the number display to the TV screen once it was installed.
I talked back to mine all the time, though.
Arthur C. Clarke [link] suggests some charities.
I came into work one morning, and they suddenly had TV screens installed in all the elevators.
Thankfully, now I can now have news stories delivered to me to fill up that interminable wait that it takes for the elevator to go from the lobby to the third floor.
I feel the same way about Doctors Without Borders.Reportedly, the Australian branch asked people to stop donating to its Tsunami relief fund, because the donations were getting so overwhelming, they didn't want to run the risk of taking it and then not being able to get that much aid to the people. That's a good organization, right there.
It just tells me stuff. I don't talk back. That'd be crazy.
So, elevators are the opposite of god?
Arthur C. Clarke [link] suggests some charities.
Huh.
I thought he was dead.
What with living in Sri Lanka, I'm glad to hear he's not recently so.
I went to his website specifically to find out if he was okay.
The most fabulous gift I received this year was a donation to Heiffer.org in my name. A wee goat. I think giving to the charity of one's choice is a tremendously selfless act of love. I am my brother's keeper.
There's just something about seeing Leonardo DiCaprio telling me to give money that leaves me cold. Once the Sandra Bullocks of the world are giving millions, my paltry ten bucks isn't needed in that direction.
I know. I'm sour. I'm not about the validation for my sour, was just feeling overwhelmed.
I feel the same way about Doctors Without Borders.
I like them as well, Steph. Adore Heiffer. There's something about them in that their mission isn't just to feed but to give people the thing they need to become self-reliant that moves me so. I love that entire concept.
their mission isn't just to feed but to give people the thing they need to become self-reliant that moves me so. I love that entire concept.
In Judaism there are "levels" of charity (for example, it's better to give somebody without them knowing who it was who made the donation). What you just described is considered the highest level possible - not just helping a person momentarily, but giving them means for helping themselves (and later, possibly even others) in the future, and without hurting any sense of value - the opposite, if anything.
I have no idea what's the conversation about. I just poked my head before going home to (yay) continue working on my exercise, but in the very educational presence of some hot chocolate milk.