XPost: alt.education, alt.true-crime, pdx.general   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   "nimue"  wrote:   
      
   > Lobby Dosser wrote:   
   >> "nimue"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Lobby Dosser wrote:   
   >>>> "nimue"  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Do you know what makes me sick, ABSOLUTELY SICK?  Dog fighting.   
   >>>>> Domestic abuse.  Child abuse.  This fucking war.  Those are   
   >>>>> terrible things, things that rip my heart out when I  think about   
   >>>>> them.  The pain of these things is so piercing.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> With all that going on, one wonders how you find time for pot.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't smoke pot.  Why do you think I do?   
   >>   
   >> I don't know whether you do or don't. All I know is you spend a lot   
   >> of time arguing about it.   
   >   
   > I am actually discussing hypocrisy and civil liberties.  However,   
   > let's add your comment about my smoking pot to your lie/dodge list.   
      
   Add it to whatever you please. I don't care.   
      
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>> You Are   
   >>>> Doing Something about all these things that rip your heart out,   
   >>>> right?   
   >>>   
   >>> Oh, yes.  I am a teacher, for one.  I also give money to many (and I   
   >>> mean MANY) different charities that help both animals and humans.   
   >>> So, yes, I give my time and my money to help make the world a better   
   >>> place.   
   >>   
   >> No, you have a job that provides you with an income and is unrelated   
   >> to your painful causes   
   >   
   > Oh, it's related.  As a teacher I am in a position to help kids -- and   
   > I do. I work at an inner-city high school and encounter what one might   
   > expect at such a school.  I have helped students who were being abused   
   > and have helped them deal with and overcome issues related to their   
   > abuse and/or neglect. Heck, I have gone after school, on my own time,   
   > with students to teen-help centers, etc.  So, that's child abuse.   
   > Domestic abuse -- well, I help the kids who have to endure it.  This   
   > fucking war?  Oh, I throw the Armed Forces off our campus all the   
   > time.  They're not getting my kids.  No way.  I don't know if that   
   > will stop the war, but I am keeping them from getting my kids. I have   
   > talked more than one student out of joining the Armed Forces.   
      
   Do you bother to teach, or are you just into social work?   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>and you give money. What do you DO?   
   >   
   > Giving money IS doing something.  And, of course, there are all the   
   > things I do to help my kids.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> What do you do to make the world a better place?   
   >>   
   >> Encourage eveyone I meet to vote Republican.   
   >   
   > So, you do nothing.  I mean, you are doing what I am doing here --   
   > talking. Talking.  However, I actually *do* other stuff.  You,   
   > apparently and by your own definition, do nothing.   
      
   I do quite a bit. I'm just not all that interested in splashing it about.   
   And I'm always astonished when people answer such questions. Perhaps it's   
   a generation thing.   
      
   >   
      
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