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musingmuse Yes, well, the same could be said for a lot of your posts, as you at the same time ignorantly & shallowly mock me for giving a sh*t about something other than designer handbags and shoes. It truly disgusts me that so many people simply cannot understand or even empathize with the suffering of other living beings and put material things in their lives ahead of helping others, especially when their own families came from nothing, using lame excuses for doing so, and slagging anybody who actually DOES care about issues like this. My family actually happen to be Russian immigrants as well, thanks, so your situation is not so different from mine. I had to laugh when I read that reasoning. They were dirt poor and worked their arses off to save for future generations, so we didn't have to suffer and work as hard as they did. But they also taught us that the world we live in and the condition of those around us *are* OUR responsibility, that there is always somebody worse off in life than we might feel ourselves, to always think of others who have nothing next to our something, and to do what we are able to help them. I thank my grandparents for teaching me that. So, hey, go ahead and condemn me for being a terrible human being, on a SOAP BOX. Better a soap box than a Prada shoe box, looking down your nose at others who 'bother' you on the streets of Vancouver. We are all just one personal disaster away from being on the streets ourselves, whether you wake up and realize it or not. Karma is a lot more real than any designer bag. As was once said:
- The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest [hu]man on earth.
- Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.