What good have you done as a Human Being?

[trustt]

Here are a couple of things i would want to do.
1) Teach the people of the third world about not urinating in public places.
2) I would be happy if i can change people's mindset on Racism, hatred of fellow men ...

1) The title of this thread should be "what good deeds do you want to do as a human?"

2) I want to share the clarity of life through the beauty of music.

Originally Posted by trustt

Here are a couple of things i would want to do.
1) Teach the people of the third world about not urinating in public places.
2) I would be happy if i can change people's mindset on Racism, hatred of fellow men ...

What a coincidence, I try to do the same things when I can.

I would convince some people to pay attention to what matters to them when making decisions.

[Defect]

define "good."

This thread is flawed. Just think about your title, man. It doesn't make any rational sense.

[lostmyface]

i helped to rebuild houses in mississippi after hurricane katrina

i volunteer at my local salvation army on the holidays

i send books to prisoners an write letters to them

i work with my campus sierra club to raise awareness on mountaintop removal an recycling.

I hope to cure all knowns diseases.

Discover a clean, safe, sustainable source of energy with absolutely no flaws.

Discover a way of managing the global average temperature.

Move the world with my music by being in a succesful rock/power-pop group that the whole family can enjoy.

Totally eliminate poverty.

And finally, locate a rainbow with children of every race and nationality then get them all to stand under it while I watch thinking "god damn, what a wonderful world."

MWAH XXXX

I stretch my money every Christmas as much as possible to give to the poor and homeless.

That's it, really.

[ArmsMerchant]

Originally Posted by No sketch

1) The title of this thread should be "what good deeds do you want to do as a human?"

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A few big problems with that "good deeds" trip. Who defines what is good? In Nazi Germany, it was a good deed to turn your Jewish neighbor in to the Gestapo. To the Inquisition, it was a "good deed" to torture a heretic to death in order to save his or her soul. Righteousness all too quickly and easily slips into self-righteousness. I will say this--if you want to change the world, change yourself.

To me and those others who espouse the Perennial Philosophy, the main goal and end of life is to achieve unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground of existence. No doing of good deeds is required--just purity of heart and poverty of spirit.

Someday you will realize that your soul is not about doing--it is about being. Given that life is eternal, what one does or does not do in any single lifetime is of little consequence in the long run.

[Rizzo in a box]

You said "have you done" and then you say what you want to do.

I would kill everyone, quickly and painlessly.

Originally Posted by ArmsMerchant

Someday you will realize that your soul is not about doing--it is about being. Given that life is eternal, what one does or does not do in any single lifetime is of little consequence in the long run.

mmm... k thx bye.

Originally Posted by ArmsMerchant

Someday you will realize that your soul is not about doing--it is about being. Given that life is eternal, what one does or does not do in any single lifetime is of little consequence in the long run.

Sounds like a copout.

Buckminster Fuller once said "Live your life as an experiment". Try something new, become an example of a new way to live.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Emerson
I look at things along those lines. I guess I would say I treat my life as an artwork. The purpose I've given my self is not to reach ever higher levels of personal enlightenment, my purpose is to create things. I do my best to add to the complexity of the world. I do this with my art and through my relationships with others. It's about increasing the resolution of reality.
It is true that the years we spend on earth are a tiny fraction in terms of geological time. Once we die and return to gaia or dissapear forever or whatever you chose to believe, our efforts in life will be but a drop in the ocean. That ocean however is one of limitless beauty and detail and I'm thrilled to participate in its creation.

[Giggles_The_Panda]

Originally Posted by Rizzo in a box

I would kill everyone, quickly and painlessly.

Just the gays.

I've done some "good" by not doing a whole lot of "bad." Chaotic neutral.

Wouldn't that really be more like lawful neutral, or lawful good?

[Martian Luger King]

I have often contemplated doing some good as a human being by contracting AIDS and spreading it around via foodstuffs.

[captain_pants]

I regularly donate plasma, the yellow liquid within blood.

Donate to Red Cross also.

I don't give money to homeless. Fuck the homeless. I overheard some beggar saying she makes over $25 an hour from begging, fuck that.

[Martian Luger King]

Originally Posted by captain_pants

I regularly donate plasma, the yellow liquid within blood.

Donate to Red Cross also.

I don't give money to homeless. Fuck the homeless. I overheard some beggar saying she makes over $25 an hour from begging, fuck that.

Giving plasma and donating blood are not noble efforts; you participate in that because you can get paid doing it. Your attitude towards homeless people, who have been fucked by the system, indicated that you have no sympathy for your fellow man or anyone but yourself for that matter. What charities have you given to that offer no monetary reparations? Also giving blood is a trend so it really can't be considered good will, as many people do it for no reason other than saying they did it.

Well, I also donate blood, but I mainly do it for the free chocolate I get afterwards and the chance to get hammered with one beer.

And I also volunteer at the local animal shelter at weekends.

[ArmsMerchant]

Originally Posted by AsylumSeaker

Sounds like a copout.

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Agreed, and a selfish asshole might well use that argument to justify his or her selfish assholery.

Thing is, what I talk about is only one of five or six different yogas. The best known is of course hatha yoga, the exercise/posture thing. Other yogas include the way of meditation, and the way of doing good works, and I would not presume to judge which is "better." Whatever floats yer boat.

That said, I still maintain that the three greatest things are faith, hope and charity, and the greatest of these is charity. (None of these need involve action.) "Charity", however, is a mistranslation of the Greek "caritas", and is better called "unconditional love." This in the sense that we are urged to love our neighbor as ourself.

Originally Posted by Martian Luger King

Giving plasma and donating blood are not noble efforts; you participate in that because you can get paid doing it. Your attitude towards homeless people, who have been fucked by the system, indicated that you have no sympathy for your fellow man or anyone but yourself for that matter. What charities have you given to that offer no monetary reparations? Also giving blood is a trend so it really can't be considered good will, as many people do it for no reason other than saying they did it.

While I kind of agree about giving blood being a trendy 'charity', don't knock money-back aid programs. Take kiva.org for example. It lets people microfinance 3rd world businesses by loaning them money. When they repay the loan you can withdraw it again or you can loan it to another business.
I loaned 300 bucks to some dude in kenya to repair his motorbike taxi.
I think this sort of thing is better than pure donations. People and nations develop dependency if all they get is handouts, although on the lowest level they're always gunna need some (people starving and homeless really can't pay off loans for example).

Originally Posted by ArmsMerchant

Agreed, and a selfish asshole might well use that argument to justify his or her selfish assholery.

Thing is, what I talk about is only one of five or six different yogas. The best known is of course hatha yoga, the exercise/posture thing. Other yogas include the way of meditation, and the way of doing good works, and I would not presume to judge which is "better." Whatever floats yer boat.

That said, I still maintain that the three greatest things are faith, hope and charity, and the greatest of these is charity. (None of these need involve action.) "Charity", however, is a mistranslation of the Greek "caritas", and is better called "unconditional love." This in the sense that we are urged to love our neighbor as ourself.

Cool

well i have brought joy and happiness into my heart. just mine

[lostmyface]

there seem to be only two or three decent humans in this entire thread.

for shame, why dont you all get off your computers go outside, and help some one who is need.