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Thread: No one mourns the homeless
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05-29-2007 #11
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Originally Posted by CockStroker
sometimes it feels like shame...less than two shades away from kindness.
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05-29-2007 #12
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Originally Posted by Vlex
sometimes it feels like shame...less than two shades away from kindness.
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05-29-2007 #13
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Originally Posted by LOCpunks
Of course, a few days and knowing you have a place to go home to doesn't give you the full idea of the desperation and other issues affecting the homeless, but it does give you some compassion and understanding.
Now I'm remembering how I used to bring people home (my ex was oh so patient), give them a hot shower, a meal, some books, blankets, and herbal remedies. Funny story...a few years go by, I had stopped doing that (got jaded) and I'm walking down the street one day and this guy sitting in a doorway jumps up and says, "It's you!" and starts saying how much my kindness had helped him and how the herbs and tea I had given him had cured his illness. He was so thankful. And I was so moved and humbled that something as simple as giving someone some herbs to get better had had such an impact.
yeah, I'm a sucker.
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05-29-2007 #14
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Re: No one mourns the homeless
Originally Posted by General Disarray
I would've been devastated ...
Don't yuck somebody else's yum
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05-29-2007 #15Originally Posted by Vlex
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05-29-2007 #16
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Re: No one mourns the homeless
[quote="General Disarray"]I spent a week in Russia last year. The last night I was there I saw an old homeless man bleeding to death on the sidewalk. People were literally stepping over him and ignoring his cries for help. I send my friend to call for help while I sit with him and try to calm him down.
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did you at least apply basic first aid?
or maybe he came across dr. jack after he was parolled, and he did him a free favor?
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05-29-2007 #17
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Why was he bleeding to death? What happened to him? Why were you in Russia? I was in Spain for 6 months, I know what it is like to have orphans begging for money at the train station in Madrid. I gave them some coins.