Bloggers reach out

[SwitSof]

Charity comes in many forms, and people give of their time and money in a great many ways. I hate needles, with a passion - I sweat when I see them, yet I've given blood almost 300 times.

Triedit, sorry for being a bit off-topic.
Pangloss, did your body react whenever you gave blood?
The last time I did when I was in Singapore, my blood pressure dropped really low and I almost lost my conciousness.
I actually am very scared of needles and did lose my conciousness once when I was in high school after the experiment to test your blood type. But after that I gave blood couple of times, and similar thing happened only on the last time. Well I can't say I've been giving blood 300 times, maybe more like 3 times so far cause of the fear with the needles even though I know I should since my blood type is O, the universal donor.
How do you handle the fear of the needles?

 

[Nuggler]

Doc, Unf -

Fight elsewhere, for crying out loud. PM each other, use your own private thread - just quit threadjacking.

Pangloss

Good idea. Threadjacking is a capital offence.

Private thread sounds like a good idea. I promise not to read it, or post on it. Others may, but probably not. Not too much interest, really. eh wot!:-|

:grommit:

 

[SwitSof]

Private thread sounds like a good idea. I promise not to read it, or post on it. Others may, but probably not. Not too much interest, really. eh wot!:-|

:grommit:

:lol: oldnugly are you Irish by some odd chance:?:

 

[55Mercury]

haven't read the whole thread yet...

But suppose the story is true. The child died. So why do they need my money? for the burial? then I'd say the sum you mentioned would be a sizeable down payment on any funeral. did any of the set-up blogs mention they were poor? I didn't get that yet heh heh

or read that far.... maybe later

 

[Nuggler]

:lol: oldnugly are you Irish by some odd chance:?:

Only on St. Patrick's Day.;-) We swamp dwellers of the greater Ottawa Valley tend to an Irish/Scottish brogish way of talkin eh. Goes way back to when Christ wore high-button boots.

With regards to the scam/no scam thing: We don't have enough info to judge yay er nay........But........PERSONALLY.........that's personally eh! - Our charitable donations go to a local mission for men, and to anyone LOCAL whom we know of, or know personally, who has undergone a tragedy in their lives. Our resources are finite. (read almost non-existant).

If this story is true, it's a horrible thing to happen. Unfortunately, it happens every day, somewhere, to somebody, and true or not, we can't give money.

So, if the guy's a scammer, may he rot in hell, and if not, my deepest sympathies go out to him and his family. And that, and $1.50, will get ya a cup of Timmies (double double).

That's from me.

and the wife.......too.:love1:

:read2:

 

[Avitable]

Hi guys.

I'm Avitable, the blogger who set up the fund. I saw a trackback from this site, and I always try to stop in at any blog that posted the graphic and link to thank them for helping out this family.

I wasn't asked to set up the fund by the family - I did it of my own volition once I saw my friend's post about his son, who drowned in a swimming pool surrounded by lifeguards in New Jersey last week.

We're actually asking people to go to his blog and leave a supportive comment. If they feel so inclined to buy a graphic and donate, that's great. The family is not in the best financial situation, so if we can help with funeral costs, or even help them not worry about a bill or two, it's about the best we can do for a tragic situation.

Had any of you actually clicked either of the links that the poster posted (and I don't even know who the poster is, but thank you for spreading the message), you could have read the whole story rather than jumping to conclusions.

Hundreds of bloggers have left supportive messages for NYCWD, showing that the online community isn't as ****ty as everyone portrays it to be. It's been amazing, and actually, this has been the first negative reaction I've seen to someone asking people to support a man who lost his son.

Best of luck,

Avitable

 

[Kreskin]

Thanks for dropping in. I can't imagine losing a 5-year old. A horrible tragedy.

 

[triedit]

Hi Avitable! Love your blog.

Total is over $3000 last I heard.

 

[Avitable]

Hi Avitable! Love your blog.

Total is over $3000 last I heard.

Yeah, we're at almost $3300 right now. It's amazing.

 

[triedit]

Im not amazed. I believe in people, and I believe that behind our online identies we are still people.
*big hug*

Does Dawg know you're doing this?

 

[Avitable]

Yes. I've communicated with him a couple of times.

 

[Pangloss]

I'll just echo Oldnugly, if he doesn't mind. . .

Pangloss

 

[SwitSof]

With regards to the scam/no scam thing: We don't have enough info to judge yay er nay........But........PERSONALLY.........that's personally eh! - Our charitable donations go to a local mission for men, and to anyone LOCAL whom we know of, or know personally, who has undergone a tragedy in their lives. Our resources are finite. (read almost non-existant).

Yeah, very ironic isn't it? Sometimes I see people who wouldn't give the time of her/his day to people s/he knows who need help, but would volunteer for people who are strangers to her/him. I'm not saying it's bad to volunteer for people you don't know since you believe in the cause I suppose. But it's just well ironic to see this in some people. I sort of consider it almost like a hypocrisy, to be honest. It's somewhat strange that people act as if they're blind to the needs of people around them yet pay close attention to people who are strangers and have nothing in touch with their lives whatsoever, either at workplace, neighbourhood, the same street you pass everyday, etc.

Or like below which I consider a classic one. You can't volunteer your time anymore for example for a cause you believe in since you got quite occupied with your own things maybe work, etc. which is fine. But since there is this feeling that is bugging you, in order to remove this feeling most likely guilty feeling, well probably without realising it, you recruit other people to compensate what you can't provide. And the classic one is you judge the other person when s/he can't volunteer anymore again because of being occupied with her/his things similar to your situation. But of course it's impossible to relate since you want to be on the right and the other on the wrong side.