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21 pictures that will restore your faith in humanity

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Sunday, June 24, 2012 5:32 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Whatever.

You want to discuss your problems with facts? Go to those topics. You have the urls. Otherwise, I'm going to assume you don't want people reading ALL of what you post. You want to post a sentence here, a phrase there, AS IF it's ALL there is. And yanno, anything other than a FULL discussion of your problems with facts isn't worth my time.

As far as I'm concerned, the time for you to put up or shut up passed a long time ago.

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Monday, June 25, 2012 8:21 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Why do you automatically assume all those things for the little girl ?"

What I see is that her skin is brown, her features are Indian and her clothes are Indian. She appears to be rural Indian, who for the most part are illiterate, impoverished, and short-lived.



So, basically, what you're doing here, is profiling. Based on what you SEE, and who she " appears to be ", you're making a value judgement, w/ regards to the statistical data available.

Got it.


" We're all just folk. " - Mal

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Monday, June 25, 2012 8:42 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Ah.... I'm just bitching now because this particular aspect of my life isn't like I want it RIGHT NOW!!! lol.... I'm impatient like that. Good things are on the horizon I'm sure.

I think the posting of the picture could have been innocient though..... well... Now I have to think about what people would think in my alternate situation too. You see... when it's a white guy smiling and giving a flower to a young indian looking girl, the first thing that anyone would think if they didn't take it as a happy picture on face value would be how you're taking it. My example was going to be the same white guy smiling and giving a flower to a white girl the same age in the same pose in the picture. On face value there, things would be the same, but those who tried to read too much into it might think that he was a pedophile. I dunno.... can't please everyone I guess. It's just scary how you have to walk on eggshells all the time and even good gestures can easily be turned into "Salem witch burning" events.

Sorry for derailing yet another thread.... Thanks for the kind words. I'm sure things will improve.

Later,
~6

Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
Oh dear. We must have got our wires crossed. I have a pretty good job which I will definitely hang on to as best I can manage. I just did want to express that indeed, some people - even me - have been in similar situation to you, even facing definite bias, and come out OK.

Anyway, that guy and girl - probably had no agenda at all. The posting of it I think is not so innocent. If we weren't to think of it as people crossing barriers to caring - like white first-world dude and poor Indian girl - it wouldn't have been posted as an example of that point.

On a different topic, let me reiterate - I'm so stoked you got that job. It's generally easier to get a better job once you have a job in the first place.

Anyway, anything else I'll PM to you. I'm sure most people aren't interested in what has become a private conversation.




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Monday, June 25, 2012 3:21 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


"My example was going to be the same white guy smiling and giving a flower to a white girl the same age in the same pose in the picture."


Which one of these is an example touching enough to "restore your faith in humanity"?





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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:30 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
"My example was going to be the same white guy smiling and giving a flower to a white girl the same age in the same pose in the picture."


Which one of these is an example touching enough to "restore your faith in humanity"?



Hmmmm... good question... let me answer with a Captain Tightpants type caption for each one.




"Thanks for teaching me how to pot Mommy's favorite flowers Dad! I know you got laid off from your job but it's really cool being able to spend all of this time with you making Mommy happy while she does her Lawyer stuff."



"Yeah Princess, I know that Dandelions look really pretty when they're yellow and they're in the forest or in somebody else's yard, but our yard. And not our next-door neighbor's yard. That hillbilly trash is the reason why Daddy needs to buy double doses of weed and feed every year because of what their pretty yellow flowers do to daddy's lawn 3 days later"



"Hi Grandpa. See what I picked for grandma out of your garden? Even if you weren't my grandpa, you're so old that Viagra wouldn't work so I have nothing to fear"




No caption needed here. For all I know the guy is her age and maybe only a few years older. What red-blooded American male wouldn't love to be on their knees giving a smiling "Britney Spears" look-alike a flower? Don't blame him because she's young.

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Haha... you kind of got me with the "creepy" pose of the guy in this picture, but who of us hasn't taken a picture in the moment that could be taken WAY out of context in our past? This is probably just the brother of the groom telling the flower girl where she needs to go next. Nothing wrong here.







But, to answer your original question..... and to make the point you were probably trying to make... none of these pictures restore my faith in humanity. The best I could say about them is that if you thought any of them could detract from faith in humanity that you're insane....

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 4:55 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Seriously.....

drunk or not....

No answers to these captions?

Meesa sad..... :(


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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 5:53 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Quote:

So my point is that I prickle at the idea that a (relatively) wealthy person can make poverty all better through a meaningless gesture.
Good gawd, Kiki, your anger is running away with you. Who said any such thing? Only that it was a nice gesture by someone to someone else, that's all. Has nothing to do with making poverty all better. I happen to find the photos you posted as also life-affirming, and I don't see the need to find political context in everything. People doing nice things for one another can be just that; it doesn't change the world, it's not political, it's just humans being nice to humans. What the hell is wrong with that??

I guess I'm just trying to say "lighten up". Enjoy it for what it is, nothing more, if that's possible.


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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 11:31 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


Yeah, I have to say I feel the same as Niki.

So many of the world's problems are pretty much unsolvable that sometimes all a person can do is an act of individual kindness. And who's to determine the ripple effect of that.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 11:57 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


OK - last post for a while.

"Only that it was a nice gesture by someone to someone else, that's all."

Well, it was presented as something that would 'restore my faith in humanity'. I see quite a bit of human-caused death, disease, misery and destruction on this planet. So I weighed those parts that would diminish my faith against those that would increase my faith. The ones that would diminish my faith seemed to have quite an edge over the others.


Though as I think about it, the need to connect with others is possibly at the root of both. It makes us give a flower to a stranger, and keeps us attached to destructive societies, b/c to sever our connections is painful.


SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.

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