Play a game to feed the hungry

[Solaris]

Hey, I like Oscar Wilde and all (obviously), and he has a very good point, but just because he was an intelligent man doesn't mean some of his ideas had holes.

To have that sort of mentality is silly. "Hhmp, I am not going to give to charity because society needs to be changed, thats the problem." Sure, but what exactly is it that you have done recently to change that?
You have to take into account that your young self isn't going to change society in a life time, never mind the world's problem of poverty.

There is direct action, and social action, while social action is the ultimate goal, it doesn't mean you can't do direct action at the same time.
That's like saying "I'm not going to donate money to someone who has cancer in my community and can't afford treatment, because the real problem is finding a cure", no crap we have to find "the cure", but by the time you find that cure the person will be long dead, when you could have just donated some money for treatment that may have saved his life. The fact is we don't have time to only look for "the cure", we need direct action now to sustain them for the time being.

Social action is very important, but to remove direct action is stupid.



I'm an American. I know we allz ain't dum.

You've misunderstood what he was saying. His point is that feeding the poor makes them content with their condition, content to live off the "crumbs from the rich mans table". It demoralises them and forces them to think of the richer members of society as their betters through their generorsity.

Read the bit about slave owners, how the worst of them were those who were kind to their slaves and therefore prevented those slaves wishing to rebel.

 

[Pesmerga]

Made 1200 rice, got to level 39 without resorting to the dictionary. Level 47 has some really out there words

 

[Solaris]

Made 1200 rice, got to level 39 without resorting to the dictionary. Level 47 has some really out there words

Well done. You perpetuated capitalism.

 

[Gray Fox]

Perpetuating capitalism never felt so dammed good.
Also I posted this a few months ago, but hardly anyone played ;(

 

[Reginald]

Learning new vocabulary has tremendous benefits. It can help you:
* Formulate your ideas better
* Write better papers, emails and business letters
* Speak more precisely and persuasively
* Comprehend more of what you read
* Read faster because you comprehend better
* Get better grades in high school, college and graduate school
* Score higher on tests like the SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT
* Perform better at job interviews and conferences
* Sell yourself, your services, and your products better
* Be more effective and successful at your job

"You can rambunctiously exhort my hypnagogic epigraph for just 20 hawkers."


I got to 2500. Hopefully enough for a couple of meals.

 

[dfc05]

I usually play 'til I get 2000 grains and then I get tired and quit. Can only make it to around level 46 or 47 with the vocab. The only part I don't like is how they have a lot of really random/useless vocab words, like names of animals... Sure, useful vocab can help you "write better papers, emails and business letters" but I don't foresee myself having to write any papers or business letters about gazelles, monkeys, and young horses.

 

[MJ12]

You've misunderstood what he was saying. His point is that feeding the poor makes them content with their condition, content to live off the "crumbs from the rich mans table". It demoralises them and forces them to think of the richer members of society as their betters through their generorsity.

Read the bit about slave owners, how the worst of them were those who were kind to their slaves and therefore prevented those slaves wishing to rebel.

No, I really get his point, I assure you. But do you really think those people are "content"? You think that getting a bowl of rice a day, if that, really makes them think, "man, I'm livin' the life"?

Every year our school funds a trip for a group of people to go to Honduras, they are sent there to help them out in various ways, usually helping them/teaching them how to build some sort of foundation IE: building,well, etc.
When the people come back they usually say the people over there are incredibly grateful for the little they have and recieve, just because they are grateful doesn't mean they are "users". You make it sound as if they are ungrateful parasites.

 

[Pesmerga]

Capitalism works.