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nicechrisman
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: koods]
#19030155 - 10/25/13 09:15 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's a thought provoking conversation though I think. I know I've struggled with this kind of thing at work before. I work in customer service and I observe in myself sometimes that I will be less likely to approach customers that make me feel uncomfortable. Like people who may or may not speak english, or people with uncomfortable disabilities. I helped a lady at work the other day who had parkinsons and was about to fall down on the ground. I kept having to talk her into sitting down. It was pretty uncomfortable, but I also felt compassion for her.
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shivas.wisdom
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: s240779]
#19030159 - 10/25/13 09:16 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Da2ra said: You guys know that if you were in my situation and you were tripping you would flat out scream if you saw him.
i've been to areas where leper colonies still exist--surrounded by folks with sunken noses--still treated them like humans
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: s240779]
#19030182 - 10/25/13 09:24 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Da2ra said: And how do you know I wasn't planning on tripping the next day and didn't want to have his image in my head? Is it not understandable that I ignored him?
yeah, better to protect your delicate psyche than to have compassion for another human being.
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Dudits
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Dude probably gets treated like shit everywhere he goes. You probably could have made his day if you would have been nice to him
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: nicechrisman]
#19030191 - 10/25/13 09:28 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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nicechrisman said: It was pretty uncomfortable, but I also felt compassion for her.
that's what it comes down to--being aware of the sufferings of others, and sympathizing with them
The Buddha was reputedly asked by his personal attendant, Ananda, "Would it be true to say that the cultivation of loving kindness and compassion is a part of our practice?" To which the Buddha replied, "No. It would not be true to say that the cultivation of loving kindness and compassion is part of our practice. It would be true to say that the cultivation of loving kindness and compassion is all of our practice."
Also, compassion towards others is directly connected to self-compassion--one cannot exist without the other--if nothing else, make this a reason to cultivate compassion.
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s240779

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nicechrisman said: yeah, better to protect your delicate psyche than to have compassion for another human being.
Indeed. A person is his own first priority.
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pwnasaurus
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shivas.wisdom said:
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Da2ra said: You guys know that if you were in my situation and you were tripping you would flat out scream if you saw him.
i've been to areas where leper colonies still exist--surrounded by folks with sunken noses--still treated them like humans

OP is a prick - if you guys remember the thread where the autistic parents got a threatening letter about their child OP sympathized with the writers of the letter. Pretty disgusting excuse for a human being.
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: s240779]
#19030207 - 10/25/13 09:33 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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i said that and i was being facetious. i'm starting to think you're a troll
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: pwnasaurus]
#19030209 - 10/25/13 09:33 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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So a massive disruptive noise in the neighborhood is acceptable? I never said I agreed with their hateful way of addressing the issue...
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claraclairvoyant said: i said that and i was being facetious.
I know you were.
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: s240779]
#19030232 - 10/25/13 09:41 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Da2ra said: So a massive disruptive noise in the neighborhood is acceptable? I never said I agreed with their hateful way of addressing the issue...
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claraclairvoyant said: i said that and i was being facetious.
I know you were.
hmm browski when u have that horrible car wreck in the near future and be left without a nose you will think differently..
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: Kinko]
#19030284 - 10/25/13 09:57 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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shivas.wisdom said: that you would completely ignore another human asking you a question because you think he looks too freaky...
For real. Its unfortunate that your first reaction was to ignore someone who was in need of help because of their outlandish appearance.
One time in San Francisco, I sat and had a convo with an obviously mentally ill homeless man just because I was curious what he had to say. Most of it was nonsense to me but at the end of his ranting he got all choked up and genuinely thanked me for talking and listening to him like a human being. He said he couldn't remember the last time someone treated him with that kind of common decency. Shit like makes me feel like a real misanthrope sometimes. Somewhere underneath that weird and disfigured exterior is a human being, who probably has had to live his life as an outcast and experience hardships and depths of loneliness most people couldn't imagine.
But its his responsibility to cover up his face because it makes you uncomfortable?
OP, you suck.
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s240779

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CavemanJohnson said: But its his responsibility to cover up his face because it makes you uncomfortable?
OP, you suck.
Social etiquette...
I'd also like to say that I think that people should give homeless people money, because in many cases there are literally no other options. Even if it's just for bus fare to an area that has a soup kitchen, if they're currently in an area without one.
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: s240779]
#19030348 - 10/25/13 10:15 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Goddamn... This thread has made me feel awful for that poor man.
I'd really consider trying to even out your karma (or whatever you'd call it... Debt to decency) by going and being a fucking saint for a day.
That was selfish, shitty, mean, and heartbreaking.
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: s240779]
#19030408 - 10/25/13 10:34 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Da2ra said:
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CavemanJohnson said: But its his responsibility to cover up his face because it makes you uncomfortable?
OP, you suck.
Social etiquette...
I'd also like to say that I think that people should give homeless people money, because in many cases there are literally no other options. Even if it's just for bus fare to an area that has a soup kitchen, if they're currently in an area without one.
meh, I don't give a flying fuck about what some people consider social etiquette.
Op, In a way I can understand were you are coming from though, being confronted with and something unknown and unfamiliar and not knowing how to react. Situations like that bring to light aspects of your personality that you might not have known about yourself. The only thing to do now is learn from the experience. You don't suck. The way our society as a whole treats these social pariahs sucks.

On a side note. I almost never give money to panhandlers. Shit I barely have enough change for my own beer lol. I try to decline nicely but sometimes mothafuckas get aggressive and its just better to ignore them
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koods
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I called it. Not a single poster took OP's side. Get a clue OP. You're the one without any social graces.
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: koods]
#19032558 - 10/25/13 06:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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dude that's so fucked up its not even funny .... thas really low man like really Low.
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s240779

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Oh, really, ignoring someone is fucked up, huh? I didn't know that simply ignoring someone was such a bad thing.
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akira_akuma
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: s240779]
#19033449 - 10/25/13 10:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Da2ra said: He has a responsibility to cover his gaping hole up, that's the way I see it.
you are a fucking ... piece of trash. sad that you can't fathom this.
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Da2ra said: And how do you know I wasn't planning on tripping the next day and didn't want to have his image in my head? Is it not understandable that I ignored him?
that is the stupidest... oh my God... i've gotta go pray to a non-existant deity now, because BY GOD, their can't be people like you... there can't be... not in a just universe. Goddamn, you suck so bad as person, and as a conscious being.
oh and as a tripper... you are a genuine turd.
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Da2ra said: Oh, really, ignoring someone is fucked up, huh? I didn't know that simply ignoring someone was such a bad thing.
you proved how fucked up you are in this thread. not by that single event.
turd.
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#19033632 - 10/25/13 11:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Dear god, what is that thing"
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Edited by koods (10/25/13 11:07 PM)
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Re: Interesting little experience [Re: s240779]
#19033662 - 10/25/13 11:15 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Da2ra said: Oh, really, ignoring someone is fucked up, huh? I didn't know that simply ignoring someone was such a bad thing.
assholes ignore people. i find it offensive, like today when i was going to get in my car in the parking lot of the grocery store and had to wait because a dude whose car was next to mine was opening his passenger door, doing something. i didn't mind at all that i had to wait but the fact that he didn't even make eye contact with me to acknowledge my physical existence while we're mere feet from each other showed that he was an asshole.
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