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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on May 03, 2013, 08:34:10 AM
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This should be good...
OneGrassRoot (18,533 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022791653
I've been challenged by a Beck/Limbaugh right-winger
As I approach 50 and evaluate the world around me -- and my place in it -- the question of "my value" has been very much on my mind given the struggle so many of us, especially over 40, are having in this capitalism-run-amok economy and society. As I approach 50, I have successfully retired from the Military and started a second career.
I have been challenged by someone who has a right-wing, religious conservative worldview to see how many people support my worldview, as he feels what I try to do to advance a world of more genuine compassion, cooperation and community has no value. To him, the fact that I struggle financially clearly indicates that I and my work have no value in this world. I try to bring more compassion into the world through my actions, which, now illegal in teh Military, is based on the teachings of Jesus...
Some of you may remember that in 2010 Glenn Beck dissed Wishadoo (and thus me) on his Fox TV show, insinuating Wishadoo is part of the communist/socialist/fascist/Nazi conspiracy because of the focus on The Common Good, compassion, yada, yada. My family is a Beck/Limbaugh family, so other than my mom, they have even chosen sides, and they side with Beck/Limbaugh, having always dissed my belief in humanity and, quite frankly, integrity. I didn't see that show. I have no comment.
I plan to launch an (initially) online COMPASSION REVOLUTION on Sunday, May 5th, and hope to prove every Limbaugh Republican who has dissed me throughout my life wrong...to show that I am far from alone, and that others are ready to not only embrace but work with me to more visibly and vocally stand up to show support for more compassionate, collaborative, joy-filled world. Sounds like a nice idea. However, your stated goal is compassion, yet you are trying to prove others with a different world view are wrong. Why not just try to be compassionate?
I really, really, REALLY hope you'll join me and help me spread the word and get more people on board to show their support for the anti-Beck/Limbaugh/Robertson/Palin/Fox world many of us are working so hard to create. Trying to be good by starting out with a premise of hate is never going to work.
I have so many projects in the works, just waiting to gather the troops, so to speak. I hope those who resonate will join this COMPASSION REVOLUTION and help me grow and develop this new movement.
Thanks in advance.
I'm female, but this Einstein pic and quote prompted me to share this morning.
Now, I think this is a good idea. Trying to make the world a better place by doing good things. Why start by trying to tear someone else down? It's kind of like Jesus saying, "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you... but **** those Romans. I hate them. Really."
OneGrassRoot (18,533 posts)
6. I don't know.
Last edited Fri May 3, 2013, 08:59 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Like you, that has puzzled me for decades.
To them, I'm a liberal, tree-huggin' heathen.
A neighbor told me a year or so ago, to my face (which is preferable, as I admire her honesty), that I am the embodiment of everything wrong with the US. I am why she fears for her teenage son and the kind of world he is growing up in.
She's fairly unstable and probably has a gun. Doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
That's a whole bunch of hate in one small post.
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They want to do all this "good" in the world but they want to take "good" and "goods" from me to do it with. Charity starts at home.
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Whoopie shit.
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OneGrassRoot (18,533 posts)
6. I don't know.
Last edited Fri May 3, 2013, 08:59 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Like you, that has puzzled me for decades.
To them, I'm a liberal, tree-huggin' heathen.
A neighbor told me a year or so ago, to my face (which is preferable, as I admire her honesty), that I am the embodiment of everything wrong with the US. I am why she fears for her teenage son and the kind of world he is growing up in.
She's fairly unstable and probably has a gun. Doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
It's funny how we're called the "unstable" ones when you DUmbasses making the claim are the ones that are either jobless, drugged-out hippies, think they're ****ing a cat, live in Buicks, swing when they walk but somehow think they're a female or vice-versa, don't know what gender they are to begin with, don't know what a ****ing bath is, gauge their ****ing ears to the size of silver dollars and then complain why no one will hire them, tattoo shit all over their faces and then complain why no one will hire them, can't HOLD a job, can't wipe their own asses without government assistance, or a combination of any of the previous. Yeah, WE'RE unstable. :whatever:
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It's funny how we're called the "unstable" ones when you DUmbasses making the claim are the ones that are either jobless, drugged-out hippies, think they're ****ing a cat, live in Buicks, swing when they walk but somehow think they're a female or vice-versa, don't know what gender they are to begin with, don't know what a ****ing bath is, gauge their ****ing ears to the size of silver dollars and then complain why no one will hire them, tattoo shit all over their faces and then complain why no one will hire them, can't HOLD a job, can't wipe their own asses without government assistance, or a combination of any of the previous. Yeah, WE'RE unstable. :whatever:
The New Normal.
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You should have everyone post pictures of their hands in a display of
not working towards anything useful solidarity.
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Has anyone figured out what the OP is trying to say? I can never seem to follow their pretzel like, twisted logic. :shrug:
I looked up "Wishadoo". Looks like some kind of facebook thingy where they sprinkle pixi dust words around. ???????
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You should have everyone post pictures of their hands in a display of not working towards anything useful solidarity.
Last time my DU mole did that, it got banned.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag72/conscave/middle_finger_zps9683f6d5.png)
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Gotta love this......
OneGrassRoot (18,548 posts)
6. I don't know.
Like you, that has puzzled me for decades.
To them, I'm a liberal, tree-huggin' heathen.
A neighbor told me a year or so ago, to my face (which is preferable, as I admire her honesty), that I am the embodiment of everything wrong with the US. I am why she fears for her teenage son and the kind of world he is growing up in.
She's fairly unstable and probably has a gun. Doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
I guess that only parents who care about honesty and their children's future are unstable.
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I looked up "Wishadoo". Looks like some kind of facebook thingy where they sprinkle pixi dust words around. ???????
Wish-A-Dupe
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She's fairly unstable and probably has a gun. Doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
I hope more DUchebags feel like this because it's coming and it is all due to the left's evil ideology.
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Is Wishapoo even still around?
I remember when it made it's run around the DUmp.
There was line of primitives with their hands out, looking for free stuff. :rotf:
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They are so ****ing whiny!
In my 40's, after spending the bulk of my life as a SAHM and homeschooling mom, I decided to be a farmer. I'm not making a huge fortune but because I voluntarily took myself out of the labor market in my 20's I had to be creative. It took quite some time to start earning any money from it. Mostly because of poor decisions or inexperience on my part. But, unlike people like you who give up in these situations, I used them as a learning experience.
The fact that you struggle financially is due to the way you manage your money, not what you earn. There are plenty of websites that will teach you how to do this for free. You might try a program like Dave Ramsey's to better learn how to budget. Of course, it you're not willing to exercise self discipline nothing will work. While money was often tight, we managed to live well in a 2 income world on 1 income. Many of our friends lived in huge, expensive (to us) houses while we lived in the same small house for most of our lives. But it was a choice and I don't regret it for a minute. As it turned out, we were living on a goldmine with a mortgage that was almost paid off. The guy that bought it paid full price and it's why we have this beautiful home in the country in an area I've wanted to live in since I was a little girl. Evidently, being frugal, saving money and paying our bills on time was a good decision.
You can have compassion and be conservative. As a matter of fact, conservatives give more to charity than liberals, evidenced by the tax returns of plugs and the boy king. Compassion means giving back to your community or to causes you believe in. While being so narrow minded, you can't think of it as charity, many of us give to our churches. A good deal of that money goes towards missions that help the very poor in countries like Africa. We provide food, education (NOT just religion but reading, math, hygene, etc.) and teaching useful skills, like farming, so they can support themselves. It doesn't have anything to do with bringing people down to your level (of income). The more you make, the more you're able to give. It has nothing to do with saying pretty words on some Internet message board. We decided to give a specific percent of our income to various causes we care about, thus the more our income rises so too does the amount we're able to give.
Just about every corporation has 1 or more foundation (including the Koch brothers who have 4). Having money allows them to make block grants to nonprofits that do help others. Thanks to capitalism, if you work hard (hard enough to be noticed by your boss or having excellent yearly reviews) you can advance in your company. Not only will this help you earn more (so you can give more) the work their employees do helps to make the profits that contribute to those foundations. Of course, you have to think of work as a career instead of just a job (until you quit, get fired or hope socialism kicks in so that lazy & whiny becomes a lifestyle choice). There's been plenty of McDonald's crew kids who worked their way up until they were able to buy their own franchise. Instead of seeing a low wage job, they saw an opportunity.
And giving doesn't have to be financial. You can do things like taking clothes you no longer wear, ones your children have outgrown, toiletries (available at the $1.00 store), etc. to a women's shelter. Donate books you've read and DVD's you no longer watch to the USO. Volunteer at a soup kitchen. If you have a garden then you can "grow a row for the homeless" (ours also includes the poor). Because the produce is fresh, it stays in your local community which helps your neighbors. But when all you do is bitch and moan about how it's a mean world, instead of being proactive and being a good model for others, then you're not practicing what you preach. Compassion requires action.
Cindie
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They are so ****ing whiny!
In my 40's, after spending the bulk of my life as a SAHM and homeschooling mom, I decided to be a farmer. I'm not making a huge fortune but because I voluntarily took myself out of the labor market in my 20's I had to be creative.
Have you checked on the "GAP" program. I think it stands for "Government Approved Produce"......if GAP certified, it allows you to sell your produce in local stores and they give Interest free government loans for (I think) up to 7 years for new or not over 2 years old equipment.....lot of paper work and red tape but you can get more money for your produce.
Some stores, like Harris Teeter, will pay more for it than you can get at the local farmers market. They will take all you can produce and place it on a special table marked "Locally grown".
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You should have everyone post pictures of their hands in a display of not working towards anything useful solidarity.
You should have everyone post pictures of their hands in other peoples pockets.
:-)
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my life as a SAHM
Sexually Adventurous Hawt Momma!?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrCEhRNgGHY[/youtube]
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You should have everyone post pictures of their hands in other peoples pockets.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Ya know what my grandmother would have called the recipients of the WishADoo list? Layabouts. Says it all.
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I plan to launch an (initially) online COMPASSION REVOLUTION on Sunday, May 5th, and hope to prove every Limbaugh Republican who has dissed me throughout my life wrong...to show that I am far from alone, and that others are ready to not only embrace but work with me to more visibly and vocally stand up to show support for more compassionate, collaborative, joy-filled world.
How come the most compassion seems to come from those on the right? the Churches manning the food banks, the Churches running the soup kitchens, the evil corporations who make huge donations both monetary and foodwise to those foodbanks and soup kitchens? how come blue states are the cheapest when it comes to giving to Charity? you want to really talk about a subject like this? then question those on your side before you question our side.
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It's Wishadoo!
She's only $10 away from making everything okay.
(http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/ac32/gobucksnumbers/humanfund_zps6fa6939f.png)
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I wonder how these people would have made it through the great depression?
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I wonder how these people would have made it through the great depression?
In the soup lines, just like today.
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I plan to launch an (initially) online COMPASSION REVOLUTION on Sunday, May 5th,
I hear Taverner has a website you could use. Ought to be up and running right about now.
and hope to prove every Limbaugh Republican who has dissed me throughout my life wrong...
Methinks this is your true motivation, not compassion. If only we hadn't laughed at him, we wouldn't be facing the website of doom...
to show that I am far from alone, and that others are ready to not only embrace but work with me to more visibly and vocally stand up to show support for more compassionate, collaborative, joy-filled world.
Compassion from a liberal never means charity...it means another govt program. Why should a liberal give when he can mooch off of taxpayers?
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This ought to work as well as "not one damn dime" day & "ban Fox news". I'm in, simply for the comic relief. Quick! Go buy a domain name with that money that SHOULD be set aside to help pay your bills. That's why you're a loser, you take care of your wants and silly dreams before your obligations.
Cindie
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Last time my DU mole did that, it got banned.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag72/conscave/middle_finger_zps9683f6d5.png)
Great picture should post it over at the DUmp
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Is Wishapoo even still around?
I remember when it made it's run around the DUmp.
There was line of primitives with their hands out, looking for free stuff. :rotf:
There is a thread in either GD or the lounge right now with a primitive begging for money.
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I've been challenged by a Beck/Limbaugh right-winger....your best course of action is....bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.