Question What have you done for the betterment of your community?

[ky]

I just wanted to kow what other people did for their community.Right now I do community service at an elementary school up the road from me.

 

[fsci123]

Uh... Im trying to think what did i do... Does making fun of people count...

 

[diogom]

I saved an injured bird, once. :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Lets see...many planted trees, many toppled trees, lots of waste collected....

I think the highlight so far was destroying a small chapel.

 

[ghostrunner01]

I think the highlight so far was destroying a small chapel.

I don't think I want to ask about that...

Anyway, I have recycled and mowed lawns for people before.

 

[T.Neo]

I have done absolutely nothing for my community. :shifty:

 

[Izack]

I pay taxes. What else do you want?? :j/k:

I used to walk dogs for the SPCA. Especially the larger ones, the old ladies who usually volunteered were afraid of them so they got no exercise (and neither did the dogs.)

Now I live in the middle of nowhere and there's no community to contribute to (unless you count moderating...:lol

 

[insanity]

I have volunteered at food banks, I used to do some mentoring, some tree planting/park clean up, I also used to read to young kids. I also work in the public sector serving my country and my home state by working for one of the most dedicated and intelligent public servants.

 

[Tex]

Volunteer fire fighter.

 

[Krikkit]

Paying taxes and not committing any crimes. And Frankly, that's more than my community deserves.

If I were to treated my community the way they treat me I would be dumping my trash all over their yards, waking them up in the middle of the night with terrible rap music turned up so loud it could violate strategic arms treaties, screaming as loud as I can all the time instead of taking ten steps forwards towards the person I am talking to and having a normal toned conversation, shooting guns wildly in the presence of their children... etc

Baltimore sucks. I hope it gets washing into the sea. Come on global warming!

 

[Eli13]

I'm a boy scout (embarrassing beyond belief i know :shifty so i'm going for my eagle project soon and i want to do something for veterans. I have helped elderly people in my church with things they couldn't do. Like this one lady who is the second-person in the world to get a metal bone or something like that. So i brought in her fire-wood and mowed her lawn and other things. Including roof repair. But that wasn't because of boy scouts.

EDIT: You really are buying into global warming? Thats just what the government wants!

 

[fireballs619]

I'm a boy scout (embarrassing beyond belief i know :shifty

Why is being a Boy Scout embarrassing to you? As a fellow scout, I see no reason to be ashamed that you're part of a great organization that teaches skills that will be useful throughout life. I fail to see where the embarrassment comes in...

 

[Tommy]

In the past, I helped organize/manage a folk music festival which donated all profits to the local food bank. I have also played at several charity events (free of charge - not even compensated for milage, etc.)

Since I moved back home to northern Wisconsin, I have donated time to the local food bank, cooked for free community meals, helped tutor children in reading, and provided tech support (free) to churches (even though I am an agnostic) and retirement communities. I help out with Scouting - even tough I strongly disagree with the prejudice of the BSA ever since the Mormon church essentially bought it out (the BSA actively discriminates against gays and athiests). While I think the BSA has been corrupted, they still offer some good - especially in my small town where the political/religeous agenda is basically ignored.

I don't just vote (the least you can do), I am politically active and write letters to my congresscritters, even actively protest (non-violently, but not always lawfully) when the situation calls for it.

Everyone knows the old saying that "The World is What We Make of It", but few people truly take that to heart. Not just the world, but our Counties, States, and Communities are what WE, as individuals, make of it.

Democracy fails when the people can't be bothered to care - and are too caught up in their own little problems to make a stand against the bigger problems that actually cause the little problems.

I don't care if you agree with me on any particular issue. As long as you have given it some real thought, and stand up for what you believe, you will have my respect.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Trying to think what exactly is my community. A bunch of people who live in the same building with me, does that count? I only live in the new place for a little above a month, but if I can really consider it "a community", then I take care to clean up all the paper litter they create every evening near the mailboxes, when they extract spam ads and just throw them under their feet. I don't know who they are but hope that counter-acting against the broken windows principles should work for improvement a little.

Two weeks ago me and my daughter planted a {word for a cute female cat, you stupid automatic censor!}-willow tree (which was actually a cut branch with some leaves sprouting out) on a street near the house, but honestly we did that for ourselves and not for community. Although I think some people may enjoy a new tree growing where it wasn't.

Currently thinking of replacing a lock on block of flats with a better one, but that takes urging people to submit some money for buying a lock and making extra keys for it. I don't know how would they accept me talking about that.

 

[Urwumpe]

Boy Scout is harmless. I was anonymous member of the environmentalist group of my school...I never formally joined them, but had been part of the team... because most of my friends operated the pretty successful recycled office material shop there, so it was natural for me to also spend time there.

I could also add that I was in the army, but this was a) Not really for the community, since we likely caused more trouble than we fixed at that time b) pure egoism of my side.

Oh, I could add to the things in favor of my immortal soul, that one of cathedral glass elements of my home church was made by me.

I really rarely destroy chapels and try hard to not let it become a habit.

 

[garyw]

In the process of reapplying to the UK Police as a volunteer constable. I failed last time around.

 

[SiberianTiger]

I really rarely destroy chapels and try hard to not let it become a habit.

Don't worry, God will know his own. :lol:

 

[Eli13]

Embarrassing probably wasn't the word i wanted to use. I'm not exactly 'ashamed' at it, but when someone I know has known that, it ends up in me being made fun of, not that i really care, its just something I avoid telling people. Just for that reason/

 

[Jarvitä]

I pay taxes. What else do you want?

You shouldn't think of paying taxes as "contribution". You should think of it as buying civilisation.

 

[Artlav]

You should think of it as buying civilisation.

Or being robbed. What else could it be if they pave the roads with water soluble asphalt?