Karma test: what do you do when you find a fat wallet?

Definitionally, it cannot be "ALL about me" if someone else is involved.

so this thread is to be about rape and guns, too?

Rockhead wrote:

so this thread is to be about rape and guns, too?

I contemplate no further discussion thereof.
U say "rape"; I don 't foresee that.





David

Definitionally, it cannot be "ALL about me" if someone else is involved.

If the motivation for doing something is all about you enjoyment or satisfaction then it is all about you. Plenty of guys have fucked women without a thought of the woman who was there in the room, she being a masturbation tool so far as he is concerned. If you did give money only because you wanted to have fun then it would have been no less "all about you" than are the encounters fore-mentioned.

For instance, 1ce as I was walking in Midtown Manhattan,
I was approached by a black bum in the street
who requested $7, informing me that he 'd use it to buy gin.
I was in the mood to acquiesce, so I did. I don 't deem that charity.

Plenty of guys have fucked women without a thought of the woman who was there in the room, she being a masturbation tool so far as he is concerned.

I've found wallets twice, while walking/running. In both cases, looked inside for an address and both times they were within walking distance,so returned to owners. Sorted.

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For instance, 1ce as I was walking in Midtown Manhattan,
I was approached by a black bum in the street
who requested $7, informing me that he 'd use it to buy gin.
I was in the mood to acquiesce, so I did. I don 't deem that charity.

That's very honest Dave. Laurence Sterne shows the same honesty in Tristram Shandy when he gives a cruelly treated donkey a macaroon in the street. An "eleemosynary donkey" Mr Sterne called it and from his decription of it it truly was so.

And the way you expressed it superbly conveys the authenticity. Or at least it does to me. The native cunning allied with a determination not to work and a desire for gin had, with much experience, led the eleemosynary black bum to be skilled at choosing people to approach who were "in the mood to akwiess (that's shorter than 'acquiesce', and easier to spell) and as such a demeanour is considered admirable you were rewarding him for his having chosen to approach you what with him being an expert in such refined physiognomic psychoanalysis.

Rider Haggard does it in King Solomon's Mines when he hints that the tragic and beautiful Foulata's care and compassion in nursing Captain Good back to health might be in the way of working her ticket to where the Men from the Stars come from in the event that they live to tell the tale despite how unlikely them doing so actually is. She had had to be carried out swooning set-fast in a sitting position because she had held the Captain's hand for three days during the fever not daring to move in case she disturbed the natural process of recovery. Florence Nightingale has nothing of that. In fact it has been said that Florence's charitable virtues were simply a way she had found of making a nuisance of herself which, on that theory, she must have enjoyed. But she did start the proper training of nurses for which we have much to be thankful for. Possibly only a little earlier than someone else would have done.

If I find cash on the ground I keep it. Cash with ID gets returned intact.

spendius wrote:

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For instance, 1ce as I was walking in Midtown Manhattan,
I was approached by a black bum in the street
who requested $7, informing me that he 'd use it to buy gin.
I was in the mood to acquiesce, so I did. I don 't deem that charity.

That's very honest Dave. Laurence Sterne shows the same honesty in Tristram Shandy when he gives a cruelly treated donkey a macaroon in the street. An "eleemosynary donkey" Mr Sterne called it and from his decription of it it truly was so.

And the way you expressed it superbly conveys the authenticity. Or at least it does to me. The native cunning allied with a determination not to work and a desire for gin had, with much experience, led the eleemosynary black bum to be skilled at choosing people to approach who were "in the mood to akwiess (that's shorter than 'acquiesce', and easier to spell) and as such a demeanour is considered admirable you were rewarding him for his having chosen to approach you what with him being an expert in such refined physiognomic psychoanalysis.

Rider Haggard does it in King Solomon's Mines when he hints that the tragic and beautiful Foulata's care and compassion in nursing Captain Good back to health might be in the way of working her ticket to where the Men from the Stars come from in the event that they live to tell the tale despite how unlikely them doing so actually is. She had had to be carried out swooning set-fast in a sitting position because she had held the Captain's hand for three days during the fever not daring to move in case she disturbed the natural process of recovery. Florence Nightingale has nothing of that. In fact it has been said that Florence's charitable virtues were simply a way she had found of making a nuisance of herself which, on that theory, she must have enjoyed. But she did start the proper training of nurses for which we have much to be thankful for. Possibly only a little earlier than someone else would have done.

If only she had started fonetic spelling . . .

spendius wrote:

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For instance, 1ce as I was walking in Midtown Manhattan,
I was approached by a black bum in the street
who requested $7, informing me that he 'd use it to buy gin.
I was in the mood to acquiesce, so I did. I don 't deem that charity.

That's very honest Dave. Laurence Sterne shows the same honesty in Tristram Shandy when he gives a cruelly treated donkey a macaroon in the street. An "eleemosynary donkey" Mr Sterne called it and from his decription of it it truly was so.

And the way you expressed it superbly conveys the authenticity. Or at least it does to me. The native cunning allied with a determination not to work and a desire for gin had, with much experience, led the eleemosynary black bum to be skilled at choosing people to approach who were "in the mood to akwiess (that's shorter than 'acquiesce', and easier to spell) and as such a demeanour is considered admirable you were rewarding him for his having chosen to approach you what with him being an expert in such refined physiognomic psychoanalysis.

Rider Haggard does it in King Solomon's Mines when he hints that the tragic and beautiful Foulata's care and compassion in nursing Captain Good back to health might be in the way of working her ticket to where the Men from the Stars come from in the event that they live to tell the tale despite how unlikely them doing so actually is. She had had to be carried out swooning set-fast in a sitting position because she had held the Captain's hand for three days during the fever not daring to move in case she disturbed the natural process of recovery. Florence Nightingale has nothing of that. In fact it has been said that Florence's charitable virtues were simply a way she had found of making a nuisance of herself which, on that theory, she must have enjoyed. But she did start the proper training of nurses for which we have much to be thankful for. Possibly only a little earlier than someone else would have done.

If only she had started fonetic spelling . . .

I once drove into NYC to meet a friend, and no sooner got out of my car than I was glad handed by a big old black man... As I reached out to shake the hand he offered, I thought, how nice to be welcomed here by a complete stranger... But; he said: I am not a bum... I told him: I wish I could say that!!! He needed subway fare to go see his mother, who I presume was older yet than he, and unable to visit him... He got his money, and I got my laugh, sort of bought with my own money, and at my own expense...

Both times I seriously considered putting more money in the wallets, because... how cool would that be?

but since i was without wallet (my own) at the time,
I felt the swift return and reduced anxiety outweighed my need
to buy karma, and also concerned it would be perceived as a bit creepy.