Be that as it may, amoung the 125 posts, you have started 11 threads. Icebreakers are what shy people do to jump in. If you have already started 11 threads, you have already broken the ice. I simply don't like holier-than-thou types. What you do to volunteer is no one's business but your own, just like what I do is my own business. Your thread only serves to pat yourself on the back, and allow others with similar mindsets to do the same. I know two things about you. You are a braggart, and you're from Minnesota. But it is always your choice to post or not to post.
I don't do as much as I'd like. I have 2 small kids and many of the things I'd like to do aren't appropriate to bring them along. They also take a lot of my time. I di a lot of volunteering in high school and college. I even joined a service fraternity in college. Volunteering is a great way to meet people. For years, before I got married, I volunteered as an EMT in my ambulance corps. Most of the EMTs there volunteered for many years just out of a need they had to "give back to their community". I respect someone who will spend over 12 hours a week volunteering for over 10 years. There were many member of the ambulance corps who fit that catagory. I'd like to do that again when my kids are a little older. For now, I'm trying to do little things here and there with my kids.
Holier than thou is what I am NOT, but you can keep assuming what you like as it makes no difference to me. Born and raised in North Carolina Mr. Know it all. To those who like to share the good things please keep them coming and for those of you that don't....oh well....have fun reading.
I agree with Clif more than I will ever want to admit. Except on the sex offender stuff hes wrong on every view he has on that subject and I am right. On this thread I omg have to say hes........right Sounds like tooting your own horn bragging on the good things you do for other people.
I admit. I agree with Clif almost always. Why else would you list your accomlishments??? But Hey I didn't want to brag about it...he he. Nerd.
Ken, I do and don't agree at the same time. Often, when someone reads about something someone does as a volunteer, they say to themselves, wow, I never thought about doing that. . .I have the time, I can do it too. Besides, a good many people volunteer because they do get something out of it - maybe they rest a little easier, knowing that they are trying to be part of a solution to a problem that they see, or feel like they have accomplished something - it's good therapy. Volunteering doesn't have to be all martyr and giving till it hurts.
No, I'm saying YOU are defining volunteering as being selfless. WHY? The definition of the word says nothing about selflessness. 1. a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking. 2. a person who performs a service willingly and without pay. 3. Military. a person who enters the service voluntarily rather than through conscription or draft, esp. for special or temporary service rather than as a member of the regular or permanent army. 4. Law. a. a person whose actions are not founded on any legal obligation so to act. b. a person who intrudes into a matter that does not concern him or her, as a person who pays the debt of another where he or she is neither legally nor morally bound to do so and has no interest to protect in making the payment. 5. Agriculture. a volunteer plant. 6. (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of Tennessee (used as a nickname). –adjective 7. of, pertaining to, or being a volunteer or volunteers: a volunteer fireman. 8. Agriculture. growing without being seeded, planted, or cultivated by a person; springing up spontaneously. –verb (used without object) 9. to offer oneself for some service or undertaking. 10. to enter service or enlist as a volunteer. –verb (used with object) 11. to offer (oneself or one's services) for some undertaking or purpose. 12. to give, bestow, or perform voluntarily: to volunteer a song. 13. to say, tell, or communicate voluntarily: to volunteer an explanation.
It can be in the wording as well. A priest said this at mass... If a man asks, is it okay to smoke while I pray? The answer would probably be no. If the same man asked, May I pray while I smoke, the answer would more than likely be yes. 8)
I gotta go to work - but if anyone still believes only selfless people volunteer, read this http://www.volunteerpro.com/past_newsletter_001.htm
Ding Ding Ding! I agree with Clif, he called it. The fact that he was right was obvious in mnredsky's rebuttal posts, citing people as unhappy, negative, judgemental, etc..
You know, what's interesting (and highly telling) is that fact that several people (nearly half, if not more, I would say) have openly agreed with me, yet I'm the one that those who don't attack.
I do not attack you but there are times if you were in arms reach I would like to smack you on the back of the head. hehehe with a hammer! LOL
To Koo and all mothers: Motherhood is the most under-appreciated form of "volunteerism" and is something that every human being has benefitted from the most. THANK YOU KOO AND ALL MOTHERS EVERYWHERE! Abundant Blessings and Shalom Kimberly Carter
