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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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#21
watching that i had a big lump in my throat knowing that was me at the age of 9 struggled hard to get where im at now because of the help of one who cared changed my whole outlook on life now i return the favor by donating clothes food and have drives at the boys and girls club and at the shelter.
 
#22
I'm in my 20s in college and working part time. My girlfriend and I have started giving money/food/or clothes to someone on the side of the street. I don't give a fuck what they do with it I know deep down that I've helped people.

I don't know if this is looked down upon but I'll throw em a few beers out of a 12 pack or a bud here and there too lol. I mean fuck it they are humans too, everyone likes good dope I don't care who ya are.
 
#24
ShroomKing said:
We just got to keep paying it forward. I think the next 100 years of human development will solve these issues.
Peace
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We are on the leading edge of the renaissance, IMO. This gives me hope for my children (who are already adults) and everybodies children. you are right Shroom, peace.
 
#25
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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Hopefully, "most folks" become "some folks" then they become "just folks" like everyone else. Just a shift in thinking is all it takes.
 
#26
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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I happen to have some very real personal experience with just how easy it is to end up homeless, and just how difficult it is to escape. I used the term very appropriately.
 
#27
str8smokn said:
That's deep..I guess I should start skipping the middle man and just take old( out grown) clothes and jackets to the homeless now.
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Bigger, stronger, more to the point, better for the homeless person--a place to shower. Seriously. Most people have no idea how hard it is to keep yourself clean using gas station restrooms. Try finding a job when you look such a mess.
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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:) "They" are, indeed. They are us.
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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You're not being a dick, you're being observant.

Last weekend Dave took me to Old Town Sac for my birthday. Within minutes of getting there, I looked down and found $60. We looked around for whoever may have dropped it, but couldn't find anyone. A woman said to take it to the visitor's center and at first we agreed, but then I realized no one's going to go there to look for their money, the VC would just keep it. We went on our way instead.

A little while later, after we'd lunched, a large, clean, freshly shaven man whose shoes fit him perfectly walked up to us and announced he was a homeless veteran, could we spare a few bucks so he could have a beer and feel normal? He pissed me off immediately, but neither Dave nor I wanted to cause a scene, and while money's tight it's not that tight, so he gave him a few dollars to have his beer to feel normal. (I no longer judge someone based on old ideas, such as, "I can't give him money because he might buy booze with it!" If that's how he copes with his life, so be it, not my place to make that judgement.)

Not two minutes later I look over and I see a woman, covered in plastic bags that she's been stuffing with more plastic bags, digging through the trash for yet more. She was wearing an OLD pair of men's saddle shoes that were several sizes too large, but at least that allowed for the several pairs of mismatched socks she was wearing to keep warm. Same thing with the layers of clothes. I grabbed Dave's arm and pressed the money into his hand, SHE is the person who truly needs that money.

And while it felt kind of good to be able to give her money, it felt awful to walk away. Absolutely awful.
 
#29
Not to be cheesy, but in the movie 'Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure:
"Be excellent to each other."
When I was working at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, there was a pan handler who stood outside over the bridge (Chicago river) with a plastic coffee cup full of change... I used to go outside to smoke one hits with him.
He never accepted any money from me because (As he explained to me) "Bro, I'm pulling down AT LEAST as much as you are, and mine's tax free."
On another front, some members HERE kept ME from being homeless throughout my stroke and diagnosis.

But taking a shit next to a garage in 'thanks'? ugh.
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Sk
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(DISCLAIMER: I've taken a couple 'strays' into our home in the half decade I've lived in Denver.)
 
#31
Great story @Seamaiden, so glad you were able to see who was really in need. Happy Birthday as well!

One fantastic thing about giving is it's contagious. I have seen studies that prove helping others makes you feel good, and makes it more likely that the people witnessing you helping others are more likely to go and help somebody themselves. Smoking a joint makes you feel good, eating a nice meal makes you feel good. However there is something about helping others that makes you float on air. Humans are wired to help each other.
 
#32
I have also known of someone going out and spending a couple hundred -- buying a tent, sleeping bag,clothes, and food--- took to a man they see everyday for a year and he says -- take your shit some where else,I want the money! We have some of those BMW drivers,they panhandle then walk down the street and climb in a nice ass car,it's hard to tell who's who.
And happy birthday @Seamaiden ,another year down the road,many more to come.
STR8
 
#33
@Seamaiden and I have also, over the years, opened our home to upwards of about 15 children of various ages (11 to about 18) who otherwise would have ended up in trouble with the law, became runaways (homeless), or worse as they were all pretty much from broken homes.

I remember one of my customers who was the director for a rehab facility in Tahoe ask me why we weren't doing it through the Foster Care program as we could receive money for what we were doing. My retort was "We're not doing it for the money...We're doing it because it's the right thing to do."
 
#36
I know I can't be the only one who, if I have nothing else to give, will jam a bud and some papers into their hands. If nothing else and they don't want to smoke it, they *can* sell it for a few bucks.
 
#38
Seamaiden said:
I know I can't be the only one who, if I have nothing else to give, will jam a bud and some papers into their hands. If nothing else and they don't want to smoke it, they *can* sell it for a few bucks.
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The bums here get pissed sometimes when I give them weed. Lol. They say stuff like " I can't drink weed", "this won't help me " and " is it any good?"
 
#39
In our small town there are folks out front of the supermarket with a sign.
I left my change 60 bucks, at the self checkout.
Returned and they looked at video and it appeared to be one of those folks scooped up the cash, the manager recognized her.
he said they spend a lot of money on Lottery tickets.
So again it's a wonder WTFs up for real..Can be taken advantage of at times.
Still help in other ways, donations to food banksenior centers donate veggies...
 
#40
There are some scamers out there , but for the most part people wont do that if they don't have to. I've seen scamers , but they are rare. people are out there because of mental illness aditcion , go to prison and get a job.to make $100 a day you have to spend , laundry food excetra. If you don't live in a big city or if you have a dog or wife you might be driving a van. theres no jobs the law runs you off right away , and you need to be clean . If you smell like booze , and are dirty you will only get enough for a 40 ozer , & a double cheeseburger.


also if you have to sleep in the bushes hide from the police other homeless people , punk kids , you just might need a beer!
ok that's enough
 
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