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How will the miracle happen today?

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Re: How will the miracle happen today?

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

esafak wrote: post #11
runamuck wrote: post #4

99.9% of the people I meet want to be kind and help. You just need to "tune into that frequency." Fantastic anecdotal article that speaks to the goodness of humanity.

Just don't push your luck. There are a lot of people -- usually women -- who travel the world to prove the goodness of humanity and get killed by some rando along the way. Look up Pippa Bacca.

I wonder what the rate of "getting killed by some rando along the way" actually is. Sure, lots of anecdotes, and I don't really know how you'd measure it, but I'm curious how it plays out by the real numbers.

Re: How will the miracle happen today?

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Post by buellerbueller »

esafak wrote: post #11
runamuck wrote: post #4

99.9% of the people I meet want to be kind and help. You just need to "tune into that frequency." Fantastic anecdotal article that speaks to the goodness of humanity.

Just don't push your luck. There are a lot of people -- usually women -- who travel the world to prove the goodness of humanity and get killed by some rando along the way. Look up Pippa Bacca.

>There are a lot of people -- usually women -- who want to travel the world to prove the goodness of humanity and get killed by some rando along the way.

"Wont someone think of the (lots of?) women?"

Honestly: how are you defining "a lot" here? A dozen or two? That's a vanishingly small proportion of humanity, my friend. And would you even hear the tales of those who travel the world and don't get killed? I am just saying that you are making a big claim, but provide no evidence.

Re: How will the miracle happen today?

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Post by willparks »

buellerbueller wrote: post #15
JR1427 wrote: post #5

This reminds me of a video I watch recently of a comfortably off guy who decided to try and do a long-distance cycle with just £100. He could afford not to rely on others, but instead he let people buy him food, give him a bed, etc. This didn't sit well with me. If you can pay your own way, but choose to instead let others pay for you, you're just sponging off people.

Maybe the point was the connectedness? Spend £100 with no actual interactions, because literally everything is transactional, or "free ride" of of the very human need to connect socially with others? I think our future needs more of the latter and less of the former.

Right, he's promoting living in a more helpful, less isolated world.

Re: How will the miracle happen today?

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Post by buellerbueller »

bpt3 wrote: post #18

If the world was filled with people with KK's attitude, humanity would have died off a very long time ago.

Conversely, if the world was filled with people with this attitude, humanity would be living in a stable, post-scarcity situation from a very long time ago.

Re: How will the miracle happen today?

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Post by jimbokun »

> Although we don’t deserve it, and have done nothing to merit it, we have been offered a glorious ride on this planet, if only we accept it.

This is the core message of Christianity. Undeserved Grace.

I will also say though, I find it annoying this guy so easily received gifts from those least able to afford them, and then admits he is not willing to be so generous himself. Did he learn nothing from their example?

Re: How will the miracle happen today?

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Post by rachel-ftw »

Stories like this always feel a little bittersweet. It’s beautiful, but women would be in potential danger in situations like these.

And I say that as someone who has spent years the world traveling alone and isn’t afraid of humanity and agrees that the kindness of people is one of the most precious and Hope-building things in the world.

Re: How will the miracle happen today?

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Post by buellerbueller »

gbjw wrote: post #26
scotty79 wrote: post #9

> We are at the receiving end of a huge gift simply by being alive. I always perceived it completely opposite. Even as a few years old child.

You think it's a curse to be alive?

Personally, I think it is whichever of these you perceive it to be.
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