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[Filitsa]

so based on what Sega is saying, you need help only if it benefits your people. and there seems to be alot of animosity towardds americans for not helping out with 1974? you only want help when you want it.


yeah, whatever. i AM glad i cannot understand it at all.

and now that i sparked something by bring up '74, i will aslo say that is an example, and i will not take bites to sidetrack this thread into what america did or didn't do in '74.

You cannot understand it, GorillaGal, because we live in a society that ships its kids off to daycare and its elderely parents to a nursing home so it can engage in other things like climbing the corporate ladder, buying the Suburban, and vacationing in Aruba.

p.s. nothing wrong wtih vacationing in aruba. or cyprus....
(and i don't have a corprate ladder to climb or a suburban.)

But you have a heart.

[Sega]

thank you sega.

Glad to be of service.

[GorillaGal]

so based on what Sega is saying, you need help only if it benefits your people. and there seems to be alot of animosity towardds americans for not helping out with 1974? you only want help when you want it.


yeah, whatever. i AM glad i cannot understand it at all.

and now that i sparked something by bring up '74, i will aslo say that is an example, and i will not take bites to sidetrack this thread into what america did or didn't do in '74.

You cannot understand it, GorillaGal, because we live in a society that ships its kids off to daycare and its elderely parents to a nursing home so it can engage in other things like climbing the corporate ladder, buying the Suburban, and vacationing in Aruba.

p.s. nothing wrong wtih vacationing in aruba. or cyprus....
(and i don't have a corprate ladder to climb or a suburban.)

But you have a heart.

a very big broken one at that.

thank you Filitsa!

[GorillaGal]

i hope most of you have watched the video i posted a link for in the thread for Oracle and Chesire Cat.
( http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw )

there is a long version of this lecture available at Randy Pausch's website. It is a moving lecture, written by a man who is in the process of dying of cancer.
One of the points that Randy makees in his lecture is the improtance of helping others. i thought it was important for the Cypriots to know that this dying man feels that by helping others, it teaches people how to get along with others.
perhaps this would be a way for the GCs and the TCs to solve thier differences and unite a nation once again.
and from someone else that was once told they were dying (me), may i also tell you that there is EMENSE pleasure one can get from doing Community Service. We should all leave this world a better place because of our being here.
there are alot of ways this can be done, and by saying things like "we take care of our own" is not accomplishing this.

i hope the members reading this will take the time to watch this video,
adn be inspired to log off the coputer, and get out to make your world, whether in your town/city, in your country, in europe, or in the world, a better place for future generations.

[Filitsa]

i hope most of you have watched the video i posted a link for in the thread for Oracle and Chesire Cat.
( http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw )

there is a long version of this lecture available at Randy Pausch's website. It is a moving lecture, written by a man who is in the process of dying of cancer.
One of the points that Randy makees in his lecture is the improtance of helping others. i thought it was important for the Cypriots to know that this dying man feels that by helping others, it teaches people how to get along with others.
perhaps this would be a way for the GCs and the TCs to solve thier differences and unite a nation once again.
and from someone else that was once told they were dying (me), may i also tell you that there is EMENSE pleasure one can get from doing Community Service. We should all leave this world a better place because of our being here.
there are alot of ways this can be done, and by saying things like "we take care of our own" is not accomplishing this.

i hope the members reading this will take the time to watch this video,
adn be inspired to log off the coputer, and get out to make your world, whether in your town/city, in your country, in europe, or in the world, a better place for future generations.

Greetings GorrillaGal,

Although this is beside the point of your post, what one needs to consider when contemplating this concept of "taking care of our own" is Cyprus's history of being invaded, occupied, and ruled by outsiders since 1400 BC. "Taking care of our own" has been a necessary means of self-preservation for Cypriots. And as I wrote in an earlier post, in this age of shipping the kid off to daycare and the elderly parent to a nursing home, the concept is a noble one.

Regards.

[Get Real!]

It has come out in a thread that the Cypriots don't generally do any volunenteer work at pet shelters.
from a previous posting, I have also discovered that there are very few-to-none orphanges in CY. I was told you take care of your own.
I would assume that would be the same for old folks homes.
I also asked once about volunteering in hospitals, and was told that is not allowed as well. Judging from the amount of trash i saw on my recent visit, it appears they don't volunteer to clean up thier communities either.

So where do the Cypriots do thier Community Services? Where do they volunteer thier time for a better community?

I really don’t know why you waste your breath sometimes GG…how long will it take you to realize that the Cyprus way works and the American way doesn’t?

Your time would be better spent questioning why America has failed despite all the community programs that were in place…

[GorillaGal]

It has come out in a thread that the Cypriots don't generally do any volunenteer work at pet shelters.
from a previous posting, I have also discovered that there are very few-to-none orphanges in CY. I was told you take care of your own.
I would assume that would be the same for old folks homes.
I also asked once about volunteering in hospitals, and was told that is not allowed as well. Judging from the amount of trash i saw on my recent visit, it appears they don't volunteer to clean up thier communities either.

So where do the Cypriots do thier Community Services? Where do they volunteer thier time for a better community?

I really don’t know why you waste your breath sometimes GG…how long will it take you to realize that the Cyprus way works and the American way doesn’t?

Your time would be better spent questioning why America has failed despite all the community programs that were in place…

american has not failed. not in the least, and i will not let you railroad this thread to an american bashing.....
and if this thread inspires one person to go do something nice for the rest of the world, or even for cyprus, then that will be a good thing. change happens one person at a time.

[Filitsa]

It has come out in a thread that the Cypriots don't generally do any volunenteer work at pet shelters.
from a previous posting, I have also discovered that there are very few-to-none orphanges in CY. I was told you take care of your own.
I would assume that would be the same for old folks homes.
I also asked once about volunteering in hospitals, and was told that is not allowed as well. Judging from the amount of trash i saw on my recent visit, it appears they don't volunteer to clean up thier communities either.

So where do the Cypriots do thier Community Services? Where do they volunteer thier time for a better community?

I really don’t know why you waste your breath sometimes GG…how long will it take you to realize that the Cyprus way works and the American way doesn’t?

Your time would be better spent questioning why America has failed despite all the community programs that were in place…

Get Real!, often our failures are the price we pay for upholding certain rights and liberties in an imperfect world filled with varying degrees of less than perfect people. Of what failures do you speak?

[Get Real!]

It has come out in a thread that the Cypriots don't generally do any volunenteer work at pet shelters.
from a previous posting, I have also discovered that there are very few-to-none orphanges in CY. I was told you take care of your own.
I would assume that would be the same for old folks homes.
I also asked once about volunteering in hospitals, and was told that is not allowed as well. Judging from the amount of trash i saw on my recent visit, it appears they don't volunteer to clean up thier communities either.

So where do the Cypriots do thier Community Services? Where do they volunteer thier time for a better community?

I really don’t know why you waste your breath sometimes GG…how long will it take you to realize that the Cyprus way works and the American way doesn’t?

Your time would be better spent questioning why America has failed despite all the community programs that were in place…

Get Real!, often our failures are the price we pay for upholding certain rights and liberties in an imperfect world filled with varying degrees of less than perfect people. Of what failures do you speak?

How much time have you got? Honestly people...

[Filitsa]

It has come out in a thread that the Cypriots don't generally do any volunenteer work at pet shelters.
from a previous posting, I have also discovered that there are very few-to-none orphanges in CY. I was told you take care of your own.
I would assume that would be the same for old folks homes.
I also asked once about volunteering in hospitals, and was told that is not allowed as well. Judging from the amount of trash i saw on my recent visit, it appears they don't volunteer to clean up thier communities either.

So where do the Cypriots do thier Community Services? Where do they volunteer thier time for a better community?

I really don’t know why you waste your breath sometimes GG…how long will it take you to realize that the Cyprus way works and the American way doesn’t?

Your time would be better spent questioning why America has failed despite all the community programs that were in place…

Get Real!, often our failures are the price we pay for upholding certain rights and liberties in an imperfect world filled with varying degrees of less than perfect people. Of what failures do you speak?

How much time have you got? Honestly people...

I was hopeful that you were capable of an intelligent exchange. Temporary lapse of reality on my part!