good deeds done dirt cheap

[kaiser soze]

So I hope I get +4 karma points for turning in a jump drive I found at my school's library. Such an easy little thing to snatch, but I know how much I rely on mine and I'm sure the person had some important school work on it.

nothing really big, but nice nonetheless

anyone do something good as of late?

[jabumbo]

my life is a good deed

[faz]

a jump drive

...a what?

[Waus]

We found a jump drive last semester in a university lab. It actually had exams and documents from a history class here...must've belonged to a professor.

Too bad there are so many history classes here that we'd never find anyone who took the class.

[g-mile7]

good work, I try and do at leats one everyday.....never know when it will be check out time....

[Dr Deaf]

So I hope I get +4 karma points for turning in a jump drive I found at my school's library. Such an easy little thing to snatch, but I know how much I rely on mine and I'm sure the person had some important school work on it.

nothing really big, but nice nonetheless

anyone do something good as of late?

a good deed or favour performed with anticipation of reciprocation is neither.
...it's an unfinished transaction that will never be completed.

[DandyFop]

I've got one for you. But it was my parents that did it.

About 5 years ago we were in San Diego. They went to sit on a park bench and found a class ring there, from a local high school. They tried to contact the school, I guess it had the chick's name on it, but the school wasn't allowed to give them her info or something like that.

So fastforward 5 years. My dad is on classmates.com catching up with old friends, when he thinks, oh I should see if that girl with the ring is on here. Lo and behold, she is! They contact her and tell her they have her high school ring from 5 years ago!

She was so so so happy. She talked about how sad she was when she lost it, and how shee never expected someone to actually put an effort like that in to get it back to her.

My parents are awesome, basically.

[g-mile7]

that is awesome.

[yeahwho]

a good deed or favour performed with anticipation of reciprocation is neither.
...it's an unfinished transaction that will never be completed.

(y) that is damn good indeed.

[Dr Deaf]

^thanks. although i penned the above, i believe the concept is buddhist in nature.




i was thinking when the last time i had the opportunity to help someone out.

beth and i were at bj's whole sale warehouse picking up 10lbs of pancake mix and 12lbs of coffee.

i'm walking thru the cracker aisle and i see this black athletic gentleman about 6' 3" stretching to reach some ritz on the very top shelf. he's all tip-toeing and kinda pushing / pulling the crackers closer without really getting them any closer.

he just about gives up. i ask him, "are you interested in those crackers". he replies, "yes, but i'm starting to think it's not worth the trouble". i hop up on the shelf, climb up to the top, grab the crackers and jump down, handing them over to him.

he was appreciative. it was funny to me, because it reminded me of a firefighter saving a kitten or something. i'm always ready to kick my ninja skills into gear to help a fellow citizen.

ironic potential: a tall black dood struggling for crackers when a 5' 10" dreadlocked-cracker happens on the scene in the cracker aisle to save the day.

[enree erzweglle]

^thanks. although i penned the above, i believe the concept is buddhist in nature.
It is. You can forego the notion of compensation and talk up the good deed in an attempt to maybe motivate others to do similar good deeds. It's a sacrifice that's kind of cool but it can make you look a little assy ("look at her advertising that x") so you have to bear that out. Anyway, when you talk that good stuff up, sometimes other good stuff comes from that because it forces a person to think a little bit and maybe do something in kind. Sets an example.

Sometimes my good deed is to not call someone out who is being an absolute fuck to me or someone else. :o

[Dr Deaf]

Sometimes my good deed is to not call someone out who is being an absolute fuck to me or someone else. :o

zing?

[Dr Deaf]

It is. You can forego the notion of compensation and talk up the good deed in an attempt to maybe motivate others to do similar good deeds. It's a sacrifice that's kind of cool but it can make you look a little assy ("look at her advertising that x") so you have to bear that out. Anyway, when you talk that good stuff up, sometimes other good stuff comes from that because it forces a person to think a little bit and maybe do something in kind. Sets an example.


excellent elaboration, like a pebble dropped into a calm pond.

/turns karma faucet back on

[monkey]

my thing with karma is that im constantly trying not to ruin it. i figure i have this already pre-disposed amount of good karma that could be magically taken away by bad actions. so im very conscious of trying not to do bad things to ruin the good karma i might have left.
it keeps me from screwing people over. :o

[abcdefz]

excellent elaboration, like a pebble dropped into a calm pond.





Coolness -
The sound of the bell
Leaving the bell


- Buson

[enree erzweglle]

zing?Oh my, not at all! I was actually thinking of a very hard time I'd been having with a guy at the gym who had been giving me big grief, repeatedly, and I was patient but after the 6th or 7th time and writing him off as many times, I calmly and (so I thought) kindly told him about how absolutely hurtful he was being to me and that just made things so, so much worse. I actually wrote all of that into that post and thought that no one would want to read it so I deleted it and left what I did.

No, I didn't mean that to sound zingy towards anyone at all. I'm so sorry if it seemed that way.

[Dr Deaf]

Coolness -
The sound of the bell
Leaving the bell


- Buson

that's great.

beth got me saying ...you can't un-ring a bell. i like it. things in motion tend to stay in motion until they're stopped or have exhausted their energy.

i'm was under the impression that buddhists believe there is no bad karma. so when people try to imply that "karmas gonna get you" i think it's the lack of positive karma not the presence of negative karma that'll get you.


Oh my, not at all! I was actually thinking of a very hard time I'd been having with a guy at the gym who had been giving me big grief, repeatedly, and I was patient but after the 6th or 7th time and writing him off as many times, I calmly and (so I thought) kindly told him about how absolutely hurtful he was being to me and that just made things so, so much worse. I actually wrote all of that into that post and thought that no one would want to read it so I deleted it and left what I did.

No, I didn't mean that to sound zingy towards anyone at all. I'm so sorry if it seemed that way.

phew. ok. no worries. either way it made me re-evaluate my first post. like perhaps i was completely dismissing the original good deed, which wasn't my intention.

pebbles in ponds make ripples.

:o

[kaiser soze]

it was funny to me, because it reminded me of a firefighter saving a kitten or something.

more like a cracka saving some crackers!

[Dr Deaf]

cracka ass cracka! i wish i could have been at his house when he explained the situation to his family.

...so outta nowhere this dreadlocked crackah ass crackah, SCALES the cracker rack, scoops up the crackers, yeah heard me?! and returns to the terra firma faster than uncle remus can say "dis show am good" and that's on the real, yaknawwhatimsaying?

[kaiser soze]

true true

that reminds me, I need to get more crackers