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 (DIR) Post #AlWQRfRRtWbAlWoyZ6 by onan@dobbs.town
       2024-08-31T09:38:33Z
       
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       One day you volunteer at a homeless shelter. You ask the other volunteers why they are there. One says because of Christianity. One says because of Roman Catholicism. One says because of mandatory community service. One says because of socialism. One says because of hatred for homeless people (feeding them makes them suffer longer). One says for college credit.Does any of that matter to the homeless who get fed? Should it matter?Does any of that matter to you? Should it matter?
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWRQg1MM6WQE6i3c0 by PrdgStreetSweeper@dobbs.town
       2024-08-31T09:49:35Z
       
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       @onan @goo
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWRlxGXR1OFn8xItU by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
       2024-08-31T09:53:29.472146Z
       
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       @onan I don't think it matters to those with an empty belly. As to Christinanity though, I've gone to a handful of soup kitchens in churches in years past. With only one notable exception, they were receiving left overs from local businesses and groceries, which the volunteers (ie. congregation members) would take first pick from and then serve the remainder, often bazaar combinations of random fast food, overcooked veggies, and stale bread. But not before requiring the long lineup of homeless to be subjected to an hour long sermon before they could sit and eat. It's hard to feel grateful for that kind of "charity". Feels more like extortion in the name of brainwashing. The only exception was one Anglican church that had an annual event where they'd hire a gourmet chef and a jazz band. There was no preaching or religious bs at that one, and the food was top notch.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWUgWAF4PE89V6qps by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
       2024-08-31T10:26:07.255858Z
       
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       @onan Incidentally, I'm reminded of this snippet of an essay Oscar Wilde wrote back in 1891."We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it. As for being discontented, a man who would not be discontented with such surroundings and such a low mode of life would be a perfect brute. Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practise thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or go on the rates, which is considered by many to be a form of stealing. As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented, and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him. He is at any rate a healthy protest. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid."https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWdLnuQnZzGh3ub3Y by kbal@fedia.io
       2024-08-31T11:40:02+00:00
       
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       The homeless souls in want of food each have their own reasons for being there as well.  Do their stories matter more or less to me than those of the ones feeding them?
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWhx5hvzFtIQS6NHs by Zer0_Darkside@dobbs.town
       2024-08-31T12:54:43Z
       
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       @onan a free meals a free meal, but hold the cyanide please.