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This Is What We Have Turned Into, Please Help A Homeless Person Today

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This Is What We Have Turned Into, Please Help A Homeless Person Today

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So sad that people don't help the homeless anymore. I guess they just believe government will do it for them. Next time you see somebody in need of help, please help them. Talk to them, see how they feel and if they are in need of a little love as well as help. These days my financial situation is dim, and the help I was able to give out has been reduced dramatically. I feel this might be the case with most families these days. Scrounge up that 10$ and help a homeless person today.
 
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Do what you can, everyone is one piece of paper away from this existence. If the 1% wants it, it becomes reality, and we blame the homeless, or a 'foriegner',or now our neighbour. Divide conquer and compete is the disease of the elite, and this is the symptom. True change comes from education, and freedom of thought and expression. Capitalism looks great on paper.......so does communism.....so does religion. "Democracy is being used against people these days by their own apathy" oops forgot the huge ass IMHO. I see less homeless in "other" North American countries, I have been to. But I am only really familiar with the center of the 'universe' in the great frozen north. Shameful, to say the least. So common is open homelessness, that fraudsters play homeless too. Engage the person as a human being, and you'll know in seconds. I took some skinny ass kid who tried to sell me crack on vacation one morning,for coffee and breakfast. I don't touch that shit, but the guy was in need, didn't judge just helped and talked. Made a new friend, he did. My wife freaked at me, but I think thats why she still loves me in some way. We gotta shed our conditioning, and take a chance on each other. It may be scary and cause harm, but doing nothing will surely leave us all homeless. Peace loving folks!
 
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indicabush said:
I have been homeless a few times in my life as a young man and now I give back by volunteering at soup kitchens. It is very rewarding to assist these people in need, after all they are human beings with feelings.
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Awesome Indica, when you experience someone who cares about you when you have no one, that is the type of person you want to emulate. Everyone has this inside us, thanks for helping everyone. Sorry my MANgina is showing, this is stirring my passionate wake-and-bake feelings. Gotta man up here and go fry up some bacon. Cheers!
 
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CannasaurusR said:
Awesome Indica, when you experience someone who cares about you when you have no one, that is the type of person you want to emulate. Everyone has this inside us, thanks for helping everyone. Sorry my MANgina is showing, this is stirring my passionate wake-and-bake feelings. Gotta man up here and go fry up some bacon. Cheers!
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"Sorry my MANgina is showing"....It's all part of being Male and being a Man, Mate.
 
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I help the homeless quite a bit as I live in high density urban area, have been homeless , and have done over a decade behind bars. I've been around and seen it all, and I believe in pay it forward. But....
It's hard to help someone who does not have the capacity to see outside of their situation to better themselves. It's disheartening. Just the day before yesterday we took a homeless man a nice meal of slow roasted pork , rice n gravy, greens and cornbread. He thanked us by taking a huge dump next to our garage door. Which I had to pay extra to the cleaning lady to have removed. I'm starting to think that the universe puts us all where we belong for our own spiritual enlightenment. But it still breaks my heart.
Peace
 
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And a husband and father and........old LOL. I'm in my 50's and no genius (by far), but the prevailing attitude is one of ego, greed and aggression. In my musings I have come to realize these aren't natural behaviour patterns. They are learned by overwhelmed, under-educated masses who look to the leaders (the 1% simply) for recognition with blind faith. The reward is intolerance, war and poverty but we still fly the flag of our oppressors, and kill our ignorant equals with pride and self-righteousness. We claim complicated problems aren't worth solving, because the solution is too complicated. The solutions to all of our social Ills can be easy and natural, and really only requires a change in thinking. Thinking for ourselves instead of following along with someone elses gun. Teaching our kids HOW to think instead of how to follow is an easy start. QUESTION AUTHORITY always no matter what "team" they run.
 
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Shroomking wow there is a lot to take from that story. Can be a painful reward when that stuff happens. It seems a lot of direct charity does not have the 'desired outcome'. Your exact experience is what piques my puzzlement, or stoner thinking about the "BIG question". I have experienced the proverbial slap-in-the-face gratitude that makes me want to stop caring (and be duped by my own generosity.) Then I experience a person who opens the door for a stranger, and does not get acknowledged by the stranger. The polite door opener instantly turns to an insulting jerk demanding a thank you, or 5 bucks or whatever. Why are we charitable (why do we donate or volunteer)? Are we charitable or just proving ourselves emotionally or monitarily superior to our benefactor? I have learned to give when I can, where I can and to what or who I (my ego) choose is worthy. I expect no credit, reward and only expect to lose. True charity for me is being prepared to lose that which you don't need or can share with others, without so much as a thank you. So, I'm happy being a loser. Happier than gaining from someone elses loss. Peace Shroomking
 
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Don't mean to be a dick but.
Kind of hard to find who really is deserving in some cases.
Was gifting a fella with a sign 5 bucks..
One day asked him how he do money wise. He said it's easy making 100 bucks in a day, folks give him food, no rent live in box by river, sends money home. Told him hell that's more than I make farming.
He said... Get a sign.....
 
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chickenman said:
Don't mean to be a dick but.
Kind of hard to find who really is deserving in some cases.
Was gifting a fella with a sign 5 bucks..
One day asked him how he do money wise. He said it's easy making 100 bucks in a day, folks give him food, no rent live in box by river, sends money home. Told him hell that's more than I make farming.
He said... Get a sign.....
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Your not being a dick, by any means. That guy just perfects todays 1% thinking, lie cheat and steal. Or is that the purest form of North American capitalism. Its both and jokes on you thinking morals and honesty play apart in it. Hard working contributing member of society beliefs??????? Yeah, when I woke up, I was only mad at myself for trusting societies leaders and my parents philosophy supporting the lie. Since the late 50's early sixties, the 1% has been given carte blanche to fuck with everyone by polarizing society, hell they even did it during a war (when previously had a galvanizing effect among citizens). Hippies, tree huggers, commies etc. is what we snap at when someone says "HEY THEY LIED". Shameful fighting amongst ourselves while the 1% sells us the weapons. Marijuana legalization is slowed and inconsistent by this in-fighting, so the goofs we elect have time to legislate against the flood gates of freedom. Full legalization, which is inevitable, shakes the foundations of the war-industrial-prison machine we call democracy, and it can't happen fast enough.
 
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Sorry chickenman, sativa, pulse and adrenaline full throttle, hope I wasn't condescending, wasn't meant to be. It touched a cord with me, my situation was a couple on welfare living with a brother (my buddy) for two years and planning (and doing) another child. I asked why, when they couldn't make ends meet now with no desire for a 'working' living, that they would plan to have another child? The answer....you guessed it.......more money from welfare! I had to leave (instead of showing anger). Why was I mad that I had to pay for their lifestyle? After wondering why I wanted to pummel two parents, I actually turned it to admiration of them. They perfected the "work like hell to have enough money to never work again" BS that was our 9-5 existence. They get the basics without working at all. That life is not for me, I like to work just enough to provide for my family the basics home food warmth. The rest (we have to own a lot to work, I know) is luxury and my time sitting down to dinner with my wife and kids is way more important than working overtime so I can scale up to a 70 inch big screen. I don't blame welfare recipients or the poor for being lazy. The 1% created them and wants us to blame them for it. I have no right to stop anyone from surviving, or telling them how to live, but I have the right to fight the flawed system that is thrust upon us all.
 
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Seamaiden said:
We can give them money (and we do). But they need a whole lot more than just money tossed at them.
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Please don't apply this as moral justification for not helping someone when you can. That loaded word "tossed" diminishes the effect a small gift can have for a person in need. Regardless how someone gets to a point so low, once you're there it's very difficult to escape.

Life becomes a minute by minute struggle for basic needs, leaving little or no time for personal development work and self monitoring. This is what ultimately makes these people so unattractive socially. Not something most folks even think about until they're in it themselves, at which point very few of your fellow humans will give a fuck.
 
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Herb Forester said:
Please don't apply this as moral justification for not helping someone when you can. That loaded word "tossed" diminishes the effect a small gift can have for a person in need. Regardless how someone gets to a point so low, once you're there it's very difficult to escape.

Life becomes a minute by minute struggle for basic needs, leaving little or no time for personal development work and self monitoring. This is what ultimately makes these people so unattractive socially. Not something most folks even think about until they're in it themselves, at which point very few of your fellow humans will give a fuck.
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As I posted earlier I to have been homeless and you are spot on...It was a 24/7 struggle no time for anything but survival. I was fortunate somebody helped me because they so me as a Human Being first and everything else second. That person was a former homeless individual and I still think about them to this very moment.
 
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CannasaurusR said:
Sorry chickenman, sativa, pulse and adrenaline full throttle, hope I wasn't condescending, wasn't meant to be. It touched a cord with me, my situation was a couple on welfare living with a brother (my buddy) for two years and planning (and doing) another child. I asked why, when they couldn't make ends meet now with no desire for a 'working' living, that they would plan to have another child? The answer....you guessed it.......more money from welfare! I had to leave (instead of showing anger). Why was I mad that I had to pay for their lifestyle? After wondering why I wanted to pummel two parents, I actually turned it to admiration of them. They perfected the "work like hell to have enough money to never work again" BS that was our 9-5 existence. They get the basics without working at all. That life is not for me, I like to work just enough to provide for my family the basics home food warmth. The rest (we have to own a lot to work, I know) is luxury and my time sitting down to dinner with my wife and kids is way more important than working overtime so I can scale up to a 70 inch big screen. I don't blame welfare recipients or the poor for being lazy. The 1% created them and wants us to blame them for it. I have no right to stop anyone from surviving, or telling them how to live, but I have the right to fight the flawed system that is thrust upon us all.
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No worries....Not feeling condescended on at all. good topic worth of discussion.....
 
#19
I donate to my local homeless shelter/food bank as it has become very hard to differentiate between scammers and truely needy folks.I do give a few dollars here and there directly but i see the same folks on the same corner for years in my neck of the woods and they are everywhere in cali.I donated near 1000 lbs of fresh fish last year to the food bank,they love it.
 
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