Community responsibility

What do you view is someone's responsibility to their community? How should/can they live up to that responsibility?

[Neverwhere]

Responsibily? That is completely dependant upon age, location, religion (if any), want for involvement, and other minute factors. Basically I feel that we are all obligated to give something back, but how much and in what frequency is a dependant thing. I did my part (so far at least) when I was a Boy Scout and when I got my Eagle Scout

well, having been a member of the doom community for four / five years I would say that your responsibility dictates you don't grab an uzi and start blowing away your classmates after running out of custom pwads.

That sort of thing generates some pretty bad press. So if you do develop psychic powers, don't use your heat vision on the vertically challenged and I think the community's reputation shall be preserved.

Of course, one could argue that bad columbine jokes would also dammage press relations with the more sane communities out there...

We have a responsibility to do our best to help everyone and everything.

Civil speech, non-violance, that's all bullcrap. It just raises questions, and questions impede the truth. The truth is life is hard and as a human being you do what you have to do to make life better for yourself and other's, you can't just do the former because it's impossible without doing the latter.

Everybody's choice has an effect on everybody eventually. It's only a matter of time. So yes, everyone has a responsibility, alot of people don't own up to that responsibility, which is why I encourage people to kick those types in the mud, cause that's where they belong.

Peace is possible, but it there's aloooooot of work involved, and we're all lazy bastards, some of us more so then others. But that's where self improvment plays a role.

Bassically all I'm saying is do your best, if you give any less then your best then don't do it at all. Cause we don't want your half-ass tries.

[KefkaTaran]

Questions... IMPEDE the truth? That's the most nonsensical thing I've heard come from these forums in a long time. I agree with some of your opinions, Mage, but we were born with the capability to ask questions. To not ask them, would be a sin. And if not for the asking of questions what truth would ever have become discovered?

Because questions mean you doubt, and things will not exsist perfectly if there is any doubt.

For instance, I'm going to take the test for my driver's liscence, I'm not going to TRY and pass, I'm GOING to pass.

Do or don't, there is no try.

Doubt is strong, very strong, but ceartainy is stronger. And if your will can master the art of ceartainy then you are one step closer to being godly my friend.

But how many people are actually willing to go out of their line and help others? In writing sure everyone would agree but I rarely see people do this sort of stuffs.

Here, they focus more on doing stupid projects like 'the biggest cake in the country' or 'longest banner in the country', which I personally view as something to boost their egos / to complement for something else.

I make a lot of visits to community centres and from what I've seen, a lot can be done if the ppl upstairs would actually lift a finger.

It's much cheaper than making the longest banner.

I believe the responsability is up to the individuals in the community, not the community as a whole.

Originally Posted by Big Bad Imp

But how many people are actually willing to go out of their line and help others? In writing sure everyone would agree but I rarely see people do this sort of stuffs.

Well no duh. The majority is lazy. Doesn't make the answer any less right.

You and everybody else knows how to solve the problem. But there's a differance between knowing something, and acting on it. But there is no alternative, this is the one true answer, otherwise.. well you see the rut we're in now..

[Priest4hire]

Originally Posted by Whitemage

Because questions mean you doubt, and things will not exsist perfectly if there is any doubt.

For instance, I'm going to take the test for my driver's liscence, I'm not going to TRY and pass, I'm GOING to pass.

Do or don't, there is no try.

Doubt is strong, very strong, but ceartainy is stronger. And if your will can master the art of ceartainy then you are one step closer to being godly my friend.

To this I reach way back in time:

Perhaps someone might say "But surely Socrates, after you have left us you can spend the rest of your life quietly minding your own business." This is the hardest thing of all to make some of you understand. If I say... I cannot "mind my own business," you will not believe that I am serious. If on the other day I tell that let to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and that examining both myself and others is really the very best thing a man can do and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living, you will be even less inclined to believe me. Nevertheless, gentlemen, that is how it is.

Socrates had it right; that is how it is. Certainty is the surest path to ideology. It is how horrendous mistakes happen and great evils are committed. To rush blindly into the future never once looking side to side, but with the blinders of certainty strapped to you head is to plunge surly into the pitfalls ahead. Wisdom begins with the knowledge that there is only doubt. To know that you do not know.

With doubt comes reflection and questions. It is the question, not the answer, which drives us upwards.