COMMUNITY SERVICE CHALLENGE

Chaseme37

Chaseme37

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I was reading through Arron's thread titled "the value of life", and I started typing a lengthy post, because I felt strongly about the things being said in there. I copied the post and here it is:

I know this is a small bump but this is an amazing thread. Andrew was right when he said that the world was a different place when our parents and grandparents were groing up. One of the things I love about my religion is that it promotes strong family and community relationships, and organizes service projects and community charities like, every week. As most of you know I'm preparing to serve a mission, and in that preparation I've become pretty spiritual and serious about church related things. A mission is all about service, and these days I literally am on the look out for someone with a broken down car that I can help, or give a ride to a hithchiker, because I love the feeling I get when I do service! My friends and I used to go to the Family Crisis Center (place where abused children can get away from their parents in high risk situations) and put on little puppet shows for the kids, then do coloring activities with them, etc. My friend was featured in a Mormon magazine because he did 100 hours of that service, all volunteer (I only got to like, 80-something, it was ski season :( haha) and it felt so awesome to know that we were doing something to help others, free of charge. I think everyone on this site should take a few hours out of their week, and volunteer somewhere in your community. Yeah, you may miss a few sessions at the skatepark, but you will be so happy when you are finished, and you will feel so good. CHALLENGE: I challenge everyone on this website to do 20 hours of community service by the time I go on my mission, October 15! I'm gonna go make a thread about it right now!

So there's the challenge! If you accept, you will have to find a place that you can perform community service at (hospital, food bank, family crisis center, etc.) and do 20 hours of community service before OCTOBER 15. That's less than 4 hours a week. Get your friends together and all of you go, it is sooo much fun when you have friends there with you! Service is so rewarding, and if you put yourself aside and help others for just a little while, you will be so much happy that you did it. Post in here and let us know how it goes!
 
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johnmattes

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red neck, tommy come to my house sometime we can snipe birds in my back yard with pellet guns ask dan how i do work
 
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Corey

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no thanks. if i feel the need to help someone in need, i help. i dont need guidelines, or deadlines. murphy saying "fuck community service" i guess is his own thing. im not ALL for it, but if i see an opportuinity to reach out and help, i do. it really feels like ur pushing your beliefs on us more so than just suggesting sincerity, but whatever. its still a good notion.
 
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seankane

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Corey Winard said:
no thanks. if i feel the need to help someone in need, i help. i dont need guidelines, or deadlines. murphy saying "fuck community service" i guess is his own thing. im not ALL for it, but if i see an opportuinity to reach out and help, i do. it really feels like ur pushing your beliefs on us more so than just suggesting sincerity, but whatever. its still a good notion.
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yerp. i get the feeling that "community service" is something that people often do just so they can make themselves feel better, not because they actually care. i'm not saying that's the opinion in your case, chase, (ha that rhymed) but it's just that counting hours of how much you're helping people completely misses the point.

you don't need to mark down hours when you help some lady that can't carry her stuff up a flight of stairs or a guy that drops his shit all over the sidewalk when he's in a hurry, it's just common courtesy, and people often miss that.
 
Chaseme37

Chaseme37

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seankane said:
Corey Winard said:
no thanks. if i feel the need to help someone in need, i help. i dont need guidelines, or deadlines. murphy saying "fuck community service" i guess is his own thing. im not ALL for it, but if i see an opportuinity to reach out and help, i do. it really feels like ur pushing your beliefs on us more so than just suggesting sincerity, but whatever. its still a good notion.
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yerp. i get the feeling that "community service" is something that people often do just so they can make themselves feel better, not because they actually care. i'm not saying that's the opinion in your case, chase, (ha that rhymed) but it's just that counting hours of how much you're helping people completely misses the point.

you don't need to mark down hours when you help some lady that can't carry her stuff up a flight of stairs or a guy that drops his shit all over the sidewalk when he's in a hurry, it's just common courtesy, and people often miss that.
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I totally see your point. I mean there are douchebags that like, go do their hours then won't even help a lady with some heavy lifting because they're like "this isn't counting on my hours gtfo n00b" or something gay like that, I just put 20 hours because if you're gonna do organized community service I think 20 hours is a decent goal you know? and I mean hey, it's not for everyone, and I'm not saying that if your service isn't organized it doesn't count, I was just trying to get people interested in helping out the community. I mean, it's just as well that you will lend a hand to someone in need when you see it, and that's good, I try to do that as well, I just felt it was rewarding to go somewhere and do some organized volunteer work. And Corey, forgive me if it seemed like I was trying to "push my beliefs on you", the service I did was in no way related to my religion. I was just trying to raise some awareness is all.
 
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Corey

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Chaseme37 said:
seankane said:
Corey Winard said:
no thanks. if i feel the need to help someone in need, i help. i dont need guidelines, or deadlines. murphy saying "fuck community service" i guess is his own thing. im not ALL for it, but if i see an opportuinity to reach out and help, i do. it really feels like ur pushing your beliefs on us more so than just suggesting sincerity, but whatever. its still a good notion.
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yerp. i get the feeling that "community service" is something that people often do just so they can make themselves feel better, not because they actually care. i'm not saying that's the opinion in your case, chase, (ha that rhymed) but it's just that counting hours of how much you're helping people completely misses the point.

you don't need to mark down hours when you help some lady that can't carry her stuff up a flight of stairs or a guy that drops his shit all over the sidewalk when he's in a hurry, it's just common courtesy, and people often miss that.
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I totally see your point. I mean there are douchebags that like, go do their hours then won't even help a lady with some heavy lifting because they're like "this isn't counting on my hours gtfo n00b" or something gay like that, I just put 20 hours because if you're gonna do organized community service I think 20 hours is a decent goal you know? and I mean hey, it's not for everyone, and I'm not saying that if your service isn't organized it doesn't count, I was just trying to get people interested in helping out the community. I mean, it's just as well that you will lend a hand to someone in need when you see it, and that's good, I try to do that as well, I just felt it was rewarding to go somewhere and do some organized volunteer work. And Corey, forgive me if it seemed like I was trying to "push my beliefs on you", the service I did was in no way related to my religion. I was just trying to raise some awareness is all.
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i dont really think those kids who go out and do their "organized" hours are deuschbags, considering theyre doing the SAME hours you are. they just dont have the spirit behind it, but theyre still getting the job done. im still not hyped on this thread, things like this piss me off. i know youre just tryin to help, and its good that you're really hyped about service.
 
Chaseme37

Chaseme37

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Tommy Tran said:
.......I ACCEPT!

EDIT: When they ask why i'm doing it, i'll say " I'm doing this to care....and for Chase Adams! "
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THAT'S THE SPIRIT! haha

and alright Corey, whatever, I don't really know what else to say. Can't please them all, eh?
 
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skooterkid

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All this negativity just makes me think that our generation is just a bunch of lazy punks. I'm sorry to say it, but i'm just stating my opinion. Please don't get angry.
 
Chaseme37

Chaseme37

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I'M SO ANGRY!!!

haha. don't worry about them dude. all they're doing is proving the point Andrew made in "the value of life" thread.

you should add me to your list as "mediocre rider, but community service advocate" haha jk jk
 
Manzie

Manzie

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And that loser Parker reckons your going to hell? I dont think so. Keep up the good work Chase.
 
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dre

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seankane said:
Corey Winard said:
no thanks. if i feel the need to help someone in need, i help. i dont need guidelines, or deadlines. murphy saying "fuck community service" i guess is his own thing. im not ALL for it, but if i see an opportuinity to reach out and help, i do. it really feels like ur pushing your beliefs on us more so than just suggesting sincerity, but whatever. its still a good notion.
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yerp. i get the feeling that "community service" is something that people often do just so they can make themselves feel better, not because they actually care. i'm not saying that's the opinion in your case, chase, (ha that rhymed) but it's just that counting hours of how much you're helping people completely misses the point.

you don't need to mark down hours when you help some lady that can't carry her stuff up a flight of stairs or a guy that drops his shit all over the sidewalk when he's in a hurry, it's just common courtesy, and people often miss that.
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yep, I completely agree with that. And the fact that it is mandatory to do community service for school kind of kills that whole idea further; it makes it seem like a chore instead of just common courtesy, which you mentioned above.
 
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