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Gillipig wrote:They will never return my favors anyway, so why spend money on them when they won't give me anything in return? Isn't that just a bad investment? I get the point with helping your neighbors and so on but these people will never give me anything. And if I'm in it to feel better about myself, why not give money to someone poor nearby, who can praise my name, hug me and thank me for my incredible kindness? Giving money to Africans is just pointless, most of the money you give won't arrive to the people you intended anyway.
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may not be a PRUDE, but he's gotta 'TUDE
might not be LEWD, but he's gonna get BOOED
RUDE
natty_dread wrote:Do ponies have sex?
(proud member of the Occasionally Wrongly Banned)Army of GOD wrote:the term heterosexual is offensive. I prefer to be called "normal"
Serbia wrote:Gilpig makes these threads from time to time whenever he feels someone on the forums is starting to like him. Then he goes out and acts all uncaring just so that those who thought they liked him will be revolted by him instead. And then he feels better about himself.
Bollocks.
Woodruff wrote:Gillipig wrote:They will never return my favors anyway, so why spend money on them when they won't give me anything in return? Isn't that just a bad investment? I get the point with helping your neighbors and so on but these people will never give me anything. And if I'm in it to feel better about myself, why not give money to someone poor nearby, who can praise my name, hug me and thank me for my incredible kindness? Giving money to Africans is just pointless, most of the money you give won't arrive to the people you intended anyway.
Truthfully, only you can answer that question for yourself. If there isn't enough reason for you to do so, then you shouldn't.
Gillipig wrote:Woodruff wrote:Gillipig wrote:They will never return my favors anyway, so why spend money on them when they won't give me anything in return? Isn't that just a bad investment? I get the point with helping your neighbors and so on but these people will never give me anything. And if I'm in it to feel better about myself, why not give money to someone poor nearby, who can praise my name, hug me and thank me for my incredible kindness? Giving money to Africans is just pointless, most of the money you give won't arrive to the people you intended anyway.
Truthfully, only you can answer that question for yourself. If there isn't enough reason for you to do so, then you shouldn't.
Well, obviously I don't think there's enough reason for me to do so, but I'm also hinting that there should be no valid reason for others to do it either. Performing charity to people who will be able to reciprocate is just overall better, do you argue against that?
AndyDufresne wrote:Maybe you should become a microlender on Kiva. You can help loan some middling amounts to people around the globe (some countries in Africa included), and you'll get paid back over a 8-16 months. That way, you feel like you are helping, and you technically get everything returned. Years ago I put like a 100 dollars on a whim, and over those years I've loaned money out to some 25 people I think, and I've never not got it all back.
--Andy
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AndyDufresne wrote:Maybe you should become a microlender on Kiva. You can help loan some middling amounts to people around the globe (some countries in Africa included), and you'll get paid back over a 8-16 months. That way, you feel like you are helping, and you technically get everything returned. Years ago I put like a 100 dollars on a whim, and over those years I've loaned money out to some 25 people I think, and I've never not got it all back.
--Andy
Gillipig wrote:AndyDufresne wrote:Maybe you should become a microlender on Kiva. You can help loan some middling amounts to people around the globe (some countries in Africa included), and you'll get paid back over a 8-16 months. That way, you feel like you are helping, and you technically get everything returned. Years ago I put like a 100 dollars on a whim, and over those years I've loaned money out to some 25 people I think, and I've never not got it all back.
--Andy
If I loan 100$ to a homeless person and he gives it back to me a couple of months later, I'm not sure he really needed the money. If the people you are talking about can pay back loans, they're not very poor at all.
AndyDufresne wrote:Gillipig wrote:AndyDufresne wrote:Maybe you should become a microlender on Kiva. You can help loan some middling amounts to people around the globe (some countries in Africa included), and you'll get paid back over a 8-16 months. That way, you feel like you are helping, and you technically get everything returned. Years ago I put like a 100 dollars on a whim, and over those years I've loaned money out to some 25 people I think, and I've never not got it all back.
--Andy
If I loan 100$ to a homeless person and he gives it back to me a couple of months later, I'm not sure he really needed the money. If the people you are talking about can pay back loans, they're not very poor at all.
They're often business people that need initial capital to purchase wholesale goods to sell. But I'm not going to try to convince you, since it doesn't sound like you are interested anyways.
--Andy
Gillipig wrote:Not your average starving African child with other words. If I'm left with the choice of either helping a homeless person in Sweden, or an African businessman, the choice is easy.
natty_dread wrote:Do ponies have sex?
(proud member of the Occasionally Wrongly Banned)Army of GOD wrote:the term heterosexual is offensive. I prefer to be called "normal"
john9blue wrote:Gillipig wrote:Not your average starving African child with other words. If I'm left with the choice of either helping a homeless person in Sweden, or an African businessman, the choice is easy.
...so which one is the obvious choice again?
Gillipig wrote:Pancakes, obviously. I don't like waffles.
Stupid questions deserves stupid answers.
natty_dread wrote:Do ponies have sex?
(proud member of the Occasionally Wrongly Banned)Army of GOD wrote:the term heterosexual is offensive. I prefer to be called "normal"
john9blue wrote:Gillipig wrote:Pancakes, obviously. I don't like waffles.
Stupid questions deserves stupid answers.
you're swedish and i don't know how dumb you are. so it's a legit question.
Gillipig wrote:They will never return my favors anyway, so why spend money on them when they won't give me anything in return? Isn't that just a bad investment? I get the point with helping your neighbors and so on but these people will never give me anything. And if I'm in it to feel better about myself, why not give money to someone poor nearby, who can praise my name, hug me and thank me for my incredible kindness? Giving money to Africans is just pointless, most of the money you give won't arrive to the people you intended anyway.
Gillipig wrote:I think your cupcake sized brain has reached it's maximum capacity Johnny, you should probably go have a lay down. Hopefully, when you wake up god will have realized how cruel he was and give you a larger brain.
natty_dread wrote:Do ponies have sex?
(proud member of the Occasionally Wrongly Banned)Army of GOD wrote:the term heterosexual is offensive. I prefer to be called "normal"
john9blue wrote:Gillipig wrote:I think your cupcake sized brain has reached it's maximum capacity Johnny, you should probably go have a lay down. Hopefully, when you wake up god will have realized how cruel he was and give you a larger brain.
why do eurofags rage so hard over the dumbest things?
or did symmetry hack your account?
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