On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:29:14 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: >On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:26, Chris Metzler wrote: >>On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 >> >>Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time >>> unless you get something for it. That's not volunteering. >>> Volunteering is giving without expecting a ROI. >> >> This is fiction. Everyone who volunteers gets a return on their >> investment; without it, they wouldn't volunteer. That "return" >> may not be in some sort of traditional form like cash, goods, or >> services; but if the volunteer absolutely truly got nothing out >> of it -- no sense of satisfaction, no gladness at having been >> able to help another, absolutely nothing -- then there is nothing >> to drive the volunteer towards that activity as opposed to another. > > Ironic that you would say this, especially considering your sig. How so? -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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