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[Si Civa]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Magus reminds me: Don't have kids, don't own pets, don't eat meat- there you go you, you've helped the world a lot.

If I put gun in my month and pulled the trigger, could I bring peace into world?

Like in theory taking it to that point could make it happen.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Magus

I thought everybody was allowed to have two kids. Or one kid and a dog (seems to work out to about 1 and a tenth of a kid--in fact you could maybe have two dogs and one kid?)

Based on what?
Have no kids, you're doing the world a favour.

Originally Posted by Si Civa

If I put gun in my month and pulled the trigger, could I bring peace into world?

Like in theory taking it to that point could make it happen.

Yes. Do it.

[Seil]

So it's cynical to want to help people? To be part of something bigger than you are?

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Everybody on the internet thinks being cynical makes them edgy, cool, and apart from the mainstream. Just like everyone else on the internet.

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Seil

So it's cynical to want to help people? To be part of something bigger than you are?

No, it's just foolish to want to fight for the sake of having a cause to fight for.

You shouldn't just go, "Where is a cause I can fight for?! I wanna fight!", you should have an actual motivated interest in a cause, and work towards it.

[The SSB Intern]

You shouldn't just go, "Where is a cause I can fight for?! I wanna fight!", you should have an actual motivated interest in a cause, and work towards it.

Tell that to the seniors in high school desperately trying to find some volunteer so they look good on college applications (of which I am one).

[Bells]

Originally Posted by Seil

Y'know, I sit at home and watch movies like "Talk To Me," that's set when Martin Luther King was assassinated, or "Watchmen" that was set during the Vietnam War and I think that I was born in the wrong era. Like Brad Pitt says in Fight Club, "We're the middle children of history... ...No great war..." I want to fight for a great cause.

Well, really, it's a stupid idea. There's not really a lot to fight for. Nothing really seems important to me right now. There's the riots going on in Egypt, there's the man who set himself on fire in Tunsia protesting bleak prospects of its citizens...

This just came across as a thought - I don't know why I'm posting this... But there's the desire there - the desire to be a part of something great, to take a stand for what I think is right. To be... active, for lack of a better word. Right now all I can do is to sit down, drink my whiskey, smoke my smokes and watch riots in the streets over something that happened afore I was born.

Should I take an interest in History, then? Should I try and get into Political Science next semester? What is there to fight for, let alone something that a struggling student could achieve?

I have the excat same feeling, so i kinda know what you're getting at... to actually make a sort of Impact, be a part of the moving wave instead of the crowd that sees it moving.

You are not aspiring to be a huge leader or a breaker of frontier, you just want to be a parte fo a positive change, someone who makes something that stands the test of time, even if it's only your own time.

For a long time i've bee thinking on how that works... and i think it's part just opportunity. Right people at the right place at the right time... but there are MANY ways to go around trying to poke change....

See Geroge Carlin for example, the man made Change. The older he got, less his work was about comedy and more about being "in your face". I always took Carlin as a man who wanted to be Wrong... because he was acid sharp like an arrow... but he would call everyone on their bullshit to their faces... and i always took that as a sign that "maybe..." if someone were to stand up and prove Carlin wrong, the world would be a bit better that way...

So that's a great feeling to aim for. I don't take folks like Colbert and jon Stewart out of that picture either... they use their tools to poke a line of thinking that HAS caused ripples... and they are not Policital or Huge tycoons... these 3 are just comedians with access to midia and great minds.

So, i guess, the first step is to narrow down your expectations from "the world you want" to "the cange you can"... take something you are passionate about, and something you can actually accomplish and be good at it...

One of the reasons i became a Safety Technician is because i actually noticed that i could teach and instruct people to how not go back hoem dead or missing fingers while doing their daily jobs and that i coudl actually use law to force a company into expending that extra $1 to get the Dust mask that actually works... that is a great feeling, that is something that makes me feeling a bit more complete, and if i could get more traction or range to my thoughts and desires i would expand that beyond... but it's not something i can do right now. But it's not out of mind either.

See what you really want to be a part of Seil, it's not all that hard to make an impact, the hard part is to pick a clear goal...

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Seil

So it's cynical to want to help people? To be part of something bigger than you are?

help who exactly? Humanity as a whole? cause excluding long term ramifications to depleting resources, humanity is doing pretty freakin well. Help a specific group? Again who do you feel is suffering so much you feel compelled to help them? Thats not as condescending as it sounds, I mean that sincerely, answering that is what you need to do first.

[Si Civa]

Originally Posted by Seil

So it's cynical to want to help people? To be part of something bigger than you are?

I would imagine it's quite idealistic to want help people instead hurting them when trying to 'help' them, sir.

Edit:// Though there's lots of way fighting, some of them even peaceful. But to change things you don't need always be part of something bigger, but instead talking people overall about issues may help them see things in new light be it politics, homosexuals rights, climate change, anything really. Because while it can be argued that dropping bombs to issues has changed them more than talking (what 'being part of bigger picture' has usually been in some degree), it would be pretty neat to change that method to something hella lot nicer way to make people see in my opinion.

[Amake]

A story: I took a walk without thinking about where I was going and ended up in a part of town I'd never thought was there. I walked by an apartment building where a tiny old woman was struggling to get her walker out the door, so I held the door for her. She was immensely thankful, I mean not quite like I'd donated a kidney to her grandchild but maybe like I'd changed a flat tire on her car. It was a little shocking how much getting through the door apparently meant to her. I walked on, noticing how I couldn't see or hear anything moving.

The end.