Do the Right Thing

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I'm starting two new threads.
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Personally, no matter what … just do the next, right thing.
Do right by yourself, your friends and family, and your neighborhood and community.
Donate blood.
Volunteer to drive neighborhood kids to soccer practice.
Pick up that piece of trash by the side of the road and place in the bin.
Look in on your neighbors... even if you know they voted for Trump.
Show up at the next school board meeting and let your voice be heard.
Etc. ...
 
Centerpiece said:
Turn the other cheek?
But I get it.
However, burning your neighbor’s house down doesn’t make yours look any better.
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I don't know any of them honestly. Down the road is one house with a trump sign. But the person there is sick and about dead. So I won't burn it down but I do flip it off when I drive by. She's an awful person. Really racist and doesn't belong in this area at all
 
aGDevil2k said:
I don't know any of them honestly. Down the road is one house with a trump sign. But the person there is sick and about dead. So I won't burn it down but I do flip it off when I drive by. She's an awful person. Really racist and doesn't belong in this area at all
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My neighborhood was overwhelmingly blue- H/W signs almost every other house or so. No T/V signs to be seen….until today. One house down the street put it out this morning.
 
aGDevil2k said:
I don't know any of them honestly. Down the road is one house with a trump sign. But the person there is sick and about dead. So I won't burn it down but I do flip it off when I drive by. She's an awful person. Really racist and doesn't belong in this area at all
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I get that. But at the end of her days… or the end of your day… if you were to stop, knock on her door and ask if there is anything you can do for her, to help her… you may be surprised. She may say something like: “you know, there is this feral cat I used to feed…”

Now, you may or not be a cat lover… and she may be a racist… but you may have an opportunity to help another living creature…not her per se, but the cat… and that would be doing the next, right thing.

Think on this.

Empathy for all other living creatures is what we progressives have that the Maga and the racists lack… may as well do the right thing regardless.
 
Centerpiece said:
This too shall pass. Go ahead and let them draw their petty conclusions about you. Don’t let them steal your joy. You can control that.
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Nah, I really can't. Some can and im happy for them. I'm of the Robin Williams ilk. I only draw joy from the entertainment of others. I never have understood joy in and of itself and I doubt I ever will. I'm a lightning rod for the human emotions around me.
 
Centerpiece said:
I get that. But at the end of her days… or the end of your day… if you were to stop, knock on her door and ask if there is anything you can do for her, to help her… you may be surprised. She may say something like: “you know, there is this feral cat I used to feed…”

Now, you may or not be a cat lover… and she may be a racist… but you may have an opportunity to help another living creature…not her per se, but the cat… and that would be doing the next, right thing.

Think on this.

Empathy for all other living creatures is what we progressives have that the Maga and the racists lack… may as well do the right thing regardless.
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Or maybe go help out that trans kid that lady wants dead.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Nah, I really can't. Some can and im happy for them. I'm of the Robin Williams ilk. I only draw joy from the entertainment of others. I never have understood joy in and of itself and I doubt I ever will. I'm a lightning rod for the human emotions around me.
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Travel. Get out. See the world.
I cried because I had no shoes, until I saw a man with no feet.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Nah, I really can't. Some can and im happy for them. I'm of the Robin Williams ilk. I only draw joy from the entertainment of others. I never have understood joy in and of itself and I doubt I ever will. I'm a lightning rod for the human emotions around me.
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Keep doing the right thing for others and recieve joy. Ignore the other stuff if you can
 
Centerpiece said:
I get that. But at the end of her days… or the end of your day… if you were to stop, knock on her door and ask if there is anything you can do for her, to help her… you may be surprised. She may say something like: “you know, there is this feral cat I used to feed…”

Now, you may or not be a cat lover… and she may be a racist… but you may have an opportunity to help another living creature…not her per se, but the cat… and that would be doing the next, right thing.

Think on this.

Empathy for all other living creatures is what we progressives have that the Maga and the racists lack… may as well do the right thing regardless.
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I am all out of empathy for MAGA. My MAGA brother who is dealing with long COVID because he didn’t get vaccinated had surgery yesterday to remove a cancerous tumor (supposedly an easy one to fix) and then had to be rushed to the hospital afterward due to chest pains (likely related to long covid). I am far more worried about the future of our country to worry about his self inflicted MAGA induced problems.

I just hope he dies before me so he isn’t running around my funeral talking about whether or not I am saved.
 
mpaer said:
Keep doing the right thing for others and recieve joy. Ignore the other stuff if you can
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While I appreciate this sentiment, doing those things hasn't brought joy. It's brought a dependency on pleasing people who mostly only care to the extent that they can get something from the deal. When I take stock of those I help and the places I give, I pretty quickly realize it's little more than grift...and it isnt just them who have done it wrong. Its me too. I gave and I did because of the good feeling of the praise. I didn't do it altruistically. So, for me, the "next right thing" is to withdraw from all of that. Those people and organizations (including UNC athletics) will need to figure it out without me and I'll need to figure out my identity without constantly needing to generate approval.
 
Interesting discussion. I'm going to look after my people first...non-racist family and friends. Call me tribal if you like. As someone mentioned above, that they've been living a giving life all along and have been shit on for it many times, I have a similar sense of things but don't have any plans to live differently. I will give even less time to the possibility of reconciliation with early life one-time friends that have gone trump. Life's too short for that.

As always I'll ask myself, WWDSD, several times a day.
 
I can't imagine hating or writing off anyone over their political views, possibly because my own cynicism makes me able to understand that their decision on the lesser of the two evils might be based on a different perspective than mine. How exactly does their decision diminish your life in any meaningful way? The price you pay for your own freedom to choose is that they also have the same freedom.
 
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